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 Has Full Confidence in Downer
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has full confidence in his Special Adviser on Cyprus, Alexander Downer, according to the UN chief’s Spokesman Martin Nezirky. Commenting on press reports concerning the Cypriot House of Representatives’ decision regarding Downer, Nezirky said “of course we are aware of the stories.” “The Secretary General has full confidence in his [...]
New Hellenic-American Organization Established To Promote Greek Issues
A new non-profit Hellenic-American organization was formally launched on Monday, January 23, aiming to organize the joint efforts of all Greek-Americans to promote Greek issues in the US. The “Hellenic American leadership Council” (HALC) will focus mainly on grassroots outreach, citizen education, and extensive leadership training, in order to build a national network of Greek [...]
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 [...]
Cypriot Foreign Minister Visits US to Strengthen Energy Cooperation
Foreign Minister Erato Kozakou Markoullis has expressed her satisfaction with the contacts she made during her three-day working visit to Washington, where she met with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Congress members, and various think tanks. Speaking to CNA, Markoullis said she was “particularly content”, both with the number and the essence of her contacts, [...]
Highlights of the Meeting Between USA and Cyprus Foreign Ministers
Cypriot minister of foreign affairs Erato Kozakou Marcoullis met her US counterpart Hillary Clinton in Washington during her visit to America. During the 45-minute meeting, the two ministers discussed the Cyprus problem, the upcoming Cyprus presidency of the EU in the second half of 2012 and its implications, and the Turkish threats concerning the exploratory [...]
Biden to Discuss Cyprus Talks in Turkey
Progress so far in the UN-led negotiations for a settlement of the Cyprus problem will be among the issues US Vice President Jo Biden will discuss with Turkish officials, during his visit to Turkey on December 2 and 3, National Security Advisor to the Vice President Tony Blinken has said. Blinken, speaking during a press [...]
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 Meeting in New York Ends, no Convergences Achieved
The two – day meeting on the Cyprus issue between UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, President of the Republic Demetris , Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu and their aides was concluded Monday in New York, at the Greentree mansion, in Long Island. The leaders are expected to meet again with the UNSG at the same [...]
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