1 week ago ‘Both leaders expressed willingness to make progress’, Holguin says

Both Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar and President Nikos Christodoulides “expressed willingness to make progress” towards achieving and implementing the confidence-building measures agreed upon at March’s enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem, United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin said on Saturday. Having held two meetings each with both leaders during her week-long stay on the […]

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1 week ago Turkish Cypriot negotiator does not budge in meeting with Holguin

An extensive discussion into how the negotiators see the Cyprus problem evolving was held at a meeting on Friday with the UN chief’s personal envoy Maria Angela Holguin. The Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot negotiators, Menelaos Menelaou and Gunes Onar respectively, met with Holguin at Ledra Palace in the buffer zone. According to Cyprus News […]

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1 week ago Property issue ‘not raised’ at Christodoulides’ meeting with Holguin

The issue of property and the arrests being made by the Republic of Cyprus of people accused of selling Greek Cypriot-owned property in the north was not raised by United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin during her meeting with President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said. Speaking to journalists after the meeting, […]

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2 w. ago Holguin’s meetings in Turkey ‘decisive’, says Christodoulides

President Nikos Christodoulides was definite on Monday that he would be meeting UN envoy Maria Angela Holguin again and that all her meetings, especially those in Turkey, would be decisive on the future of the Cyprus talks. “A new meeting with Holguin will definitely take place,” Christodoulides said, however he pointed out that “it would […]

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2 w. ago Erdogan tells Sharaa Turkey welcomes lifting of Syria sanctions

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa during talks in Istanbul on Saturday that Turkey welcomed the US and EU decisions to lift sanctions on Syria, Erdogan’s office said. Erdogan also said that “Israel’s occupation and aggression in Syrian territory is unacceptable” and that Turkey will continue to oppose it on every […]

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2 w. ago UN envoy Holguin talks with Christodoulides ahead of July UN meeting

Maria Angela Holguin, the UN secretary-general’s personal envoy for Cyprus, met with President Nikos Christodoulides at the presidential palace on Saturday and is scheduled to meet Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on May 26. “We agreed to work hard this month to achieve results based on the March agreement. We want to present concrete outcomes […]

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3 w. ago Holguin to meet Christodoulides on Saturday, Tatar on Monday

The UN chief’s personal envoy for Cyprus Maria Angela Holguin kicks off her meetings on the island with a 10.30am appointment with President Nikos Christodoulides on Saturday. Holguin will be meeting Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Monday at 10.30am. According to diplomatic sources, after her meetings with the leaders of the two communities, Holguin […]

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4 w. ago Greece supportive of envoy Hahn’s appointment, Turkey less so

Greece expressed its support for the European Commission’s announcement of Johannes Hahn as its special envoy for the Cyprus problem, though Turkey was less enamoured by the decision. Greece’s foreign ministry said on Thursday that it “welcomes” Hahn’s appointment, and that the appointment “reaffirms the European Union’s unwavering support for United Nations-led efforts for a […]

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