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Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will attend the 71st UN General Assembly in New York that will be chiefly focused on immigration issues. On the sidelines of the event, he will meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and UN...

In his UNFICYP report, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon praises the leaders of the two communities in Cyprus, President of the Republic Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci, for the genuine progress they have made in the...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited on Saturday the island of Lesvos and "met with refugees from countries that have suffered very much," as he said. He toured the refugee and migrant camp at Kara Tepe and the Moria hotspot and...

When Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon met in Athens on Saturday a resolution to the Cyprus issue were a critical part of what the two leaders discussed. As PM Tsipras emphasized discussions between Turkish...

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon came to Greece with a message of solidarity. Reuters reported that after a meeting with Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Friday, Ban Ki-moon told the press that "Greece should not be left alone to address this challenge on its own." Tsipras offered...

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon met with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos on the first leg of his two-day visit to Greece. During the dinner at the Acropolis Museum, he discussed the refugee...

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will be in Athens on Friday to meet with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias and Migration Policy Minister Yiannis Mouzalas. The focus of his trip to Greece is to discuss the refugee...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will visit Lesvos, Greece, on June 18 to meet with migrants, asylum seekers and the volunteers who support them. “I will visit Lesvos to assess the situation and express my solidarity,” Ban told journalists speaking at...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon now has a clear picture about the UN-led peace talks taking place in Cyprus, Cyprus Government Spokesman Nicos Christodoulides said on Thursday. Christodoulides’ statement came after a meeting between President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras met with the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at the UN on Tuesday, September 30. During the customary photo - op for the meting Ban Ki-moon said to Tsipras that he was surprised by...

In addition to the Cyprus issue and the "FYROM" name dispute, recent regional and international crises dominated discussions between Greek Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in New York on Sunday, during the Ministerial Week of the...

At 11 am in Geneva, a meeting began on the Cyprus issue between the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the leaders of both Cypriot communities, Demetris Christofias and Derviş Eroğlu. The meeting is expected to last approximately four hours. After the meeting, UN Secretary General will make a statement. It is the third round of three-way talks...

Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci has said “yes” to holding a meeting with Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades and UN Secretary-general Ban Ki-Moon in Davos, if it is asked of him. Akinci’s statements on Wednesday were made after Anastasiades had made...

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today stressed the importance of reaching a lasting settlement in Cyprus as the new United Nations envoy on this issue prepares to meet with the leaders of the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities tomorrow. During a...

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today hailed the “crucial” role of United Nations peacekeepers over the past 50 years in preventing a recurrence of fighting between Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities in Cyprus, and hoped both sides will continue to...