Christodoulides to Address UN General Assembly in New York
President Nikos Christodoulides travels to New York for the 81st UN General Assembly, with the Cyprus issue at the centre of his meetings with the UN chief and his personal envoy.
President Nikos Christodoulides travels to New York for the 81st UN General Assembly, with the Cyprus issue at the centre of his meetings with the UN chief and his personal envoy.
ELAM says AKEL lawmakers raised the issue of Greek F-16s stationed at the Andreas Papandreou air base during a parliamentary committee session on Turkish airspace violations.
Foreign Minister Konstantinos Kompos will hold 35 confirmed bilateral talks on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, alongside at least five meetings with the President.
President Nikos Christodoulides said fresh proposals presented to Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman could lead to positive developments, though the two sides remain apart.
The President travels to Athens on Tuesday evening for a Cyprus Shipowners' Union event, where Greek President Konstantinos Tasoulas will also attend, before continuing to New York.
AKEL has accused DISY of deflecting from the spy van scandal after DISY alleged political interference, renewing calls to publish the long-withheld Stefanou report.
Turkish prosecutors have issued a detention warrant for a retired colonel located in the occupied north, as part of a reopened probe into a 2011 prison death in Silivri.
Yiannis Karousos says DISY officials who support President Nikos Christodoulides must declare it openly and step down from the party's collective bodies.
President Nikos Christodoulides says he is fully prepared for an expanded conference on the Cyprus problem, but the UN secretary-general has ruled out a 3+1 or 5+1 meeting during the General Assembly week.
The six Cypriot MEPs say the State of the Union address failed to mention Cyprus, despite its emphasis on defending every inch of EU territory.
Disy deputy chairman Efthimios Diplaros and vice-chairman Yiannis Karousos have accused each other of party disloyalty, following a gathering attended by President Nikos Christodoulides in Platres.
Cyprus has settled on Agios Sozomenos as the site for its new Central Prisons, abandoning the original choice of Mathiatis after local opposition and infrastructure concerns.