UNSG’s Special Adviser to Cyprus Espen Barth Eide has said Nicos Anastasiades and Mustafa Akinci are in 100% agreement about the European Union character of a federal Cyprus after a solution. Eide, who was speaking on Thursday evening at an event in the Centre of Visual Arts & Research (CVAR) in the old town of…
Telephon networks to be united next month
President of Turkish Cypriot Chamber of Commerce Fikri Toros expressed that works regarding the usage of mobile telephones in the whole island within the framework of confidence building measures package are in the last stage and the system will start to operate as of beginning of July. Adding that all mobile telephone operators lean towards…
Ozgurgun says Anastasiades is ruining positive atmosphere with words
UBP party leader Huseyin Ozgurgun argued that the positive air being created on the Cyprus issue was being axed by GC leader Anastasiades with his careless statements. Ozgurgun in an interview to Hurriyet Newspaper and CNN Turk said that the Greek Cypriot-Greek duo had started off with the guarantorship first and were now pointing to…
Anastasiades:”Turkish troops should withdraw in order to reach a settlement”
Greek Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades said that no European state would allow foreign troops on their soil. Anastasiades was speaking during an interview with CNN Türk’s Elif Özgen during which he stressed that if there would…………… Read the rest on: http://www.kpdailynews.com/index.php/cat/35/news/5055/PageName/CYPRUS_LOCAL_NEWS
No lights at flag leads GCs to believe it was a CBM
A report in KIBRIS POSTASI newspaper reports that following a fault in the power lines leading to the painted flag on the Five Finger Mountain, the flag has not been lit for the past two evenings. The paper reports that GC journalists who have called the newspaper believed that the flag was not lit up…
Nami: The actual negotiations will start now
Turkish Cypriot daily Yeni Duzen newspaper (19.06.15) reports that the Turkish Cypriot negotiator, Ozdil Nami has said that the difficult negotiations have not started yet and added that what they have been doing until now was to “take the picture of the existing situation”. In statements to Kanal Sim television, Nami said yesterday that the…
Nami:Μore progress achieved in 3 weeks than in the previous 5 years
According to GC newspaper Alithia an ‘Anastasiades-Akinci document’ is being prepared TC negotiator Nami, is believed to have indicated that more progress was achieved in three weeks than in the previous five years……. Read the rest on: http://www.kpdailynews.com/index.php/cat/35/news/4934/PageName/CYPRUS_LOCAL_NEWS
Ban commends leaders’ commitment to settle Cyprus issue:
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today commended the commitment of the Turkish Cypriot leader, Mustafa Akinci, and the Greek Cypriot leader, Nicos Anastasiades, to reach a comprehensive settlement to the Cyprus issue. Mr. Ban, who met today with Mr. Akinci in New York, welcomed the “positive atmosphere” surrounding the ongoing talks, encouraging the leaders “to stay on…
Confidence building measures proposed by GC
According to sigmalive here is the list of CBMs submitted by the G / C side at the negotiating table. President Anastasiades has already informed the members of the National Council in which he gave a list of measures. The CBM of the Greek side are: – Reunification of the wider areas of Nicosia. These include: the…
AKEL welcomes the agreement on Confidence Building Measures
Member of the Secretariat and Political Bureau of AKEL Stefanos Stefanou issued a press release welcoming the the agreement on confidence building measures. Following the leaders’ meeting on last Thursday , UNSG’s Special Advisor on Cyprus, Espen Barth Eide announced five CBMs agreed on by TC and GC sides. Below is AKEL’s statement: “AKEL welcomes…