Alexander Downer

Efforts to solve the Cyprus problem in 2014, took off on an optimistic note but ended with Cyprus suspending its participation in the UN-led talks due to Turkey`s provocative actions. The year was marked by an increased U.S. involvement on...

Although he almost single-handedly blocked talks trying to reunify Cyprus 40 years after it was divided by a Turkish invasion, Turkish-Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu now says he's confident renewed talks will lead to a deal this year. Eroglu, a hardliner...

Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades, who said talks with Turkish Cypriots to reunify the island were likely dead, said there are some signs of life again and that he now sees “serious prospects” for the two sides to sit down...

President Nicos Anastasiades said on Sunday the Greek Cypriot side has submitted constructive proposals with regard to the efforts to solve the Cyprus issue and the representatives of the UNSG could use them to achieve a joint statement which...

Michael Photios, the Greek-Australian, former MP of the Liberal Party of New South Wales (NSW) is one of the first victims of the new policy that the Australian Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, is putting into practice. According to Abbott’s decision,...

The United Nations Special Adviser to the Secretary-General of Cyprus, Alexander Downer is among the Australian depositors who will lose money under the new bank depositors’ tax, if it prevails. The Australian former minister for Foreign Affairs told the Australian media that he...

The UN mediator on Cyprus, Alexander Downer, seeking to end a four-decade diplomatic deadlock, said Greek and Turkish sides now had strong economic reasons to agree a reunification that could help ease debt problems and speed exploitation of disputed...

A dinner hosted by Cyprus President Demetris Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu for the UN team in Cyprus was concluded late on Thursday evening at the village of Pyla. Cyprus President Demetris Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis...