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  • Cypriot talks focus on the economy
    28 Feb 2010 (0)

    Cypriot President Demetris Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat held their first round of talks last week following the recent visit of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

  • Major partner withdraws from coalition government
    16 Feb 2010 (0)

    Cyprus President Demetris Christofias has expressed regret over a decision by the Social Democrats Movement EDEK to withdraw from government, saying that he was not surprised.

  • UN Secretary General. Christofias. Talat.
    UN chief seeks ‘courage’ on Cyprus
    8 Feb 2010 (0)

    United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon last week called on both communities of Cyprus to show the necessary “courage” to reunify the divided island following talks with political leaders in N

  • Downer, Zerihoun, Christofias and Talat meet for talks on Cyprus
    Christofias: Cautious about progress of talks
    18 Jan 2010 (0)

    Cyprus President Demetris Christofias has said he is very cautious to speak about convergences during the first phase of the intensive talks, in the framework of the ongoing direct negotiation proc

  • Christofias. Greece.
    Cyprus president to visit Greece
    11 Jan 2010 (0)

    President Christofias announced that he is going to visit Greece in the intervening week between the intensive talks that are planned for 11-13 January and for 25-27 January.

  • Dimitris Christofias. New York.
    Christofias points finger at Turks for slow progress in Cyprus talks
    28 Sep 2009 (0)

    President of the Republic of Cyprus Dimitris Christofias has expressed hope that Turkey will change its stance on the Cyprus problem so that a settlement could be achieved.

  • Christofias. Talat. Accelerated talks.
    Leaders accelerate Cypriot talks
    21 Sep 2009 (0)

    The leaders of the two communities in Cyprus have decided to accelerate the pace of their meetings, which take place in the UN-controlled buffer zone, in the framework of UN-led direct negotiations

  • Mass grave of Greek Cypriots discovered
    16 Sep 2009 (0)

    -"A Turkish military zone in the illegally occupied north of Cyprus may hold the answer to the fate of some of the 1,464 still-unaccounted-for missing from the Turkish invasion of 1974," said Theo

  • Downer to discuss Cyprus issue at UN Headquarters
    15 Sep 2009 (1)

     UN Secretary General’s Special Advisor on Cyprus, Alexander Downer, will discuss the Cyprus issue during his two-week stay at the UN headquarters in New York.

  • Christofias. Talat. Art exhibition.
    Cyprus talks: slow progress and good will
    14 Sep 2009 (0)

    Cyprus’ rival leaders resumed reunification talks on Thursday after a month-long summer recess, each submitting compromise proposals aimed at nudging the slow-moving process forward.

  • Cyprus. Greek Cypriot pilgrimage.
    Cyprus talks off after ‘checkpoint harassment’
    7 Sep 2009 (0)

    The start of the second round of talks between President of Cyprus Demetris Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat were postponed last week after Greek Cypriots on a pilgrimage wer

  • Downer cautious on Cyprus
    11 Aug 2009 (0)

    UN Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Cyprus Alexander Downer reiterated last week that he is cautiously optimistic the negotiation process aiming to a Cyprus solution can succeed, as talks ent

  • Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders.
    Cyprus talks: meeting 38 talks ranged far and wide
    28 Jul 2009 (0)

    Security issues, the Limnitis crossing point, citizenship, immigration and illegal settlers, in Turkish occupied Cyprus, were discussed on Thursday at the 38th meeting between the President of the

  • 1966 Holden. Cyprus Classic Car Rally.
    Classic car rally in Cyprus raises funds for cancer
    28 Jul 2009 Melissa Reynolds (0)

    A cheque for more than €35,000 was recently presented to the Cyprus Anti-Cancer Society by the Cyprus Federation of Classic Vehicles, the money raised by the participants of its 48-Hour rally.

  • Cyprus talks focus on security
    21 Jul 2009 (0)

    Security was again the focus during the latest round of United Nations-backed talks today between Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders as they try to reach a solution that will unify the Medit

  • Opening of new check point: a positive move forward in Cyprus
    29 Jun 2009 (0)

    Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders agreed on Friday to open a new checkpoint linking the two sides of the divided island.

  • Christofias. Talat. Liminitis.
    Cyprus talks bring opening of Liminitis crossing closer
    15 Jun 2009 (0)

    The leaders of the two communities in Cyprus have come closer to an agreement on opening a crossing point at Limnitis following their meeting on Thursday.

  • David Milliband. Dora Bakoyannis. May 2009.
    Miliband calls for bizonal solution on Cyprus division
    1 Jun 2009 (0)

    Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Miliband last week expressed his support for a Cyprus settlement in the form of “a bizonal, bicommunal joint entity” following talks with his Greek counterpart Dor

  • Transplants up
    13 Apr 2009 (0)

    A threefold increase in heart and lung transplants carried out at Athens’s Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center has been attributed to the gesture of Australian national Oliver Zammit to donate the organ

  • Talat double books meeting
    6 Apr 2009 (0)

    The meeting scheduled between Cypriot President Demetris Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat was cancelled last week because he had arranged meetings with Sweden’s Foreign Minis

  • Cyprus talks continue
    9 Mar 2009 (0)

    The leaders of the two communities in Cyprus, President of the Republic Demetris Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat, met last  to continued theur UN-led direct negotiations.

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