UNFICYP

On Thursday, the UN (United Nations) said that it would block the construction of a road commissioned by the authorities in occupied Cyprus because it would encroach on the UN-controlled buffer zone which divides the island. The following morning,...

President-elect of Cyprus Nikos Christodoulides met the Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Thursday for the first time since the presidential elections earlier in February. The meeting took place at the residence of the head of the United Nations Peacekeeping...

A Greek Cypriot farmer has alleged that he was shot by Turkish soldiers. According to Cypriot media sources, he was struck in the shoulder and is being treated in a hospital. Two other Greek Cypriot men were with the farmer...

Turkey condemned the decision by the UN Security Council on Monday to renew the mandate of the UN peacekeeping mission in Cyprus for another year. "In view of the prevailing conditions on the island, it is necessary to keep the...

Armed Turkish soldiers caught on video harassing a Greek Cypriot farmer in the village of Denia in the buffer zone were reportedly under investigation on Monday by the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP). Christakis Panayiotou, a community leader,...

The work of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) has been extended for 6 months, as a result of a Security Council resolution which was unanimously adopted on Wednesday. The move comes at a time when reunification talks between...

The UN has said it remains ready to help the two sides in Cyprus develop a roadmap to creating a mine-free island, should there be the political will to do so. UN spokesperson in Cyprus, Aleem Siddique, was invited to...

The UN Security Council adopted unanimously on Thursday a resolution, renewing for six more months, until January 31, 2018, the mandate of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP). According to the resolution, the Security Council welcomes "the progress of...

The two sides in Cyprus will decide when and how to address such issues as the time zone, UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) spokesman Aleem Siddique has told CNA, following a decision taken in Cyprus' Turkish occupied areas...

The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution on the renewal of the mandate of the UN peace-keeping force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) on Thursday. The Security Council “encourages the sides to grasp the current opportunity with determination to secure a...