UN searching for common ground

The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is trying to determine whether there is common ground on what should be achieved at the 5+1 Cyprus conference in Geneva later this month. In preparation, UN

UN envoy in Cyprus ahead of Geneva summit

President Nicos Anastasiades will tell visiting UN envoy he is ready to attend a Cyprus summit in Geneva to end the current deadlock so settlement talks can resume after a four-year lull.

Crossing the trust bridge to Geneva

In a world where optimism is in shorter supply than a COVID-19 vaccine, it seems almost masochistic to believe that anything positive can come out of the UN-hosted Cyprus conference to be

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Cyprus, Greece welcome UN summit

Cyprus and Greece have said they will attend a five-party conference called by the United Nations in Geneva in late April. President Nicos Anastasiades said he would participate at the UN-hosted informal

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UN envoy to return in March

UN special envoy Jane Holl Lute is expected back on the island next month to meet Cypriot leaders preparing for a Cyprus summit involving the guarantor powers Greece, Turkey, and the UK.

Guterres serves political expediencies

By Dr Andrestinos N. Papadopoulos, Ambassador a.h. The Report of UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, on his mission of good offices in Cyprus, submitted recently to the Security Council, contains references and omissions

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Location, date of UN summit not pinned down

A date and location for the UN-led five-party conference on Cyprus, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres seeks to hold remains undecided, although it was scheduled to convene in New York next month. Guterres

Britain urges progress at UN summit

UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on Thursday pledged Britain would play a decisive role in ending decades-long division in Cyprus urging all parties to make progress at a United Nations summit. “We

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UN chief open to new ideas

The UN Security Council mandate for Cyprus is to secure a bizonal, bicommunal solution but the parties can present new ideas at a conference in March, said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. “It