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The two negotiators, Andreas Mavroyiannis and Ozdil Nami, continued on Monday morning their work in the context of the ongoing UN led process for the reunification of Cyprus, CNA sources said, adding that the two are set to meet...

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...

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...

The U.N. refugee agency reports a multi-million-dollar appeal begun early this year on behalf of tens of thousands of refugees and migrants in Greece and along the Balkan route. The U.N. refugee agency and 60 partner organizations appealed for about...

President Nicos Anastasiades intends to send proposals to the parliamentary parties as regards the restructuring of the National Council, his top advisory body on the Cyprus problem comprising the parliamentary parties. Political parties have been criticizing the President for not...

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...

The number of refugees and other migrants trapped in Greece has grown in a day by about 5,000 to 57,458 after officials started counting people in a U.N. housing program. Most have been stuck in the financially struggling country since...

There has been "large-scale violation of rights" in Greece as a result of the austerity programmes imposed by its international lenders, independent UN expert on human rights Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky said in a press conference here on Friday. According to...

UN Special Rapporteur for Cultural Rights, Karima Bennoune, stressed that the protection of cultural heritage “is not a luxury item.” Bennoune was addressing an open discussion at the University of Cyprus on Monday entitled ‘using international law to defend the...

"Greece and Cyprus, Cyprus and Greece are perfectly coordinated in terms of resolving the Cyprus issue," Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos on Wednesday said during his meeting with Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades at the Presidential Mansion. A solution to the Cyprus...