Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders have not made sufficient progress during talks on reunifying Cyprus to call an international conference at this time. Ban’s spokesman made the announcement Saturday afternoon after the secretary-general’s meeting Friday with Alexander Downer, the U.N. special adviser on Cyprus, and telephone calls earlier Saturday with [...]
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UN Chief Ban Ki-moon May Call Conference on Cyprus
UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has urged the leaders of the two communities in Cyprus to make decisive steps towards a final agreement on the Cyprus problem, noting that at this state of the talks, to maintain the momentum and continue negotiations, even in an intensive manner, is not enough. Speaking after talks at [...]
Cyprus Rivals Face Deadline to Keep UN Peace Talks Alive
UN leader Ban Ki-moon will start two days of talks with the rival leaders of divided Cyprus on Monday having warned them that time is running out to seal an accord. Ban has in the past told Demetris Christofias, head of the internationally recognized Greek-Cypriot government, and Turkish-Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu, that he could end [...]
Ban Ki-moon Warns Time is Running Out for Cyprus Deal
U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon warned Cyprus’s Greek and Turkish leaders that they were running out of time to settle their dispute over the island, and urged them to break a deadlock in talks at a summit in New York later this month. In unusually blunt letters to both leaders, Ban laid out the differences between [...]
UNSG: No Deadline for Cyprus Talks at Greentree But Progress Necessary
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said there is no deadline at the Greentree meeting, noting however that the Cyprus talks cannot go on the way they do and the leaders will have to agree as much as possible during their next meeting in New York. In remarks at the United Nations Correspondents’ Association dinner [...]
UN Secretary General Calls for New Cyprus Problem Summit in January
A new three-way Summit is planned for January in order to reach a settlement on the Cyprus Problem. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon told reporters at UN headquarters that “both sides have made encouraging progress during these two days on some of the remaining core issues”. “This has given me confidence that a comprehensive settlement [...]
Cyprus: Community Leaders Meet UNSG in New York
UN Secretary General Ban Ki moon instituted substantive discussions on four core issues of the Cyprus talks, namely governance and power-sharing, the issue of property, the issue of territory and the issue of citizenship during a meeting he had on Sunday with Cyprus President Demetris Chritofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu at Greentree Estate, [...]
Christofias Briefs UN Chief on Problems in Cyprus Talks
President of the Republic of Cyprus Demetris Christofias has pointed out to UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon the difficulties in the negotiating process to solve the Cyprus problem, due to the withdrawal of the Turkish side from points that had been agreed on by former leader of the Turkish Cypriot community Mehmet Ali Talat. [...]
UN Secretary-General Voices Support for Greece
UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, has sent out a supportive message to the Greek people, who are currently undergoing hard times. After the cancellation of Greek PM Giorgos Papandreou visit to New York had been announced, the UN SG telephonically contacted the Permanent Representative of Greece at the UN, Ambassador Anastasis Mitsialis, so as to express [...]
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