UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has appointed Major General Rafael Jose Barni of Argentina as Force Commander of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP). An UNFICYP press release said that in the past Major General Barni served in UNFICYP as Commanding Officer of the Argentinian Battalion for one year. He also served as

Newly appointed Foreign Minister of Greece Dora Bakoyiannis has invited the Cyprus foreign minister George Iacovou for talks in Athens, and has said that the Cyprus questin and Greco-Turkish relations will be among her priorities as foreign minister. Bakoyiannis replaced Petros Molyviatis on Monday after a cabinet reshuffle. Speaking during a ceremony, Bakoyiannis said that

Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos and the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan are due to meet on February 28 in Paris in order to discuss the Cyprus problem. This will be the first significant sign of progress since Papadopoulos led the Greek Cypriot rejection of the UN Plan in April 2004. According to an official press

Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos used the return of a Turkish Cypiot refugee to his property as an occasion to attack the UN plan to reunite the island that was rejected overwhelmingly by Greek Cypriots in April 2004. On Tuesday Greek Cypriot refugees living in a Turkish Cypriot property were relocated after the government withdrew its