UN has proposed second round of negotiations for 18 February The U.N.-sponsored peace talks between Libya’s internationally recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) and putschist Gen. Khalifa Haftar this week ended on Saturday without reaching [ More … ]
The Astana process has deprived the Syrian opposition of an efficient bargaining chip in their negotiations with the regime for a political transition in Syria. In comparison, the Geneva discussions appear to have lost all [ More … ]
Ethiopia’s former health and foreign minister has been elected as the new director general of World Health Organisation (WHO) at an election held on Tuesday afternoon in Geneva. Tedros defeated Dr David Nabarrag of Britain [ More … ]
A new round of Syria peace talks opens on Tuesday, the latest United Nations push to resolve a six-year conflict that has killed more than 320,000 people. Five previous rounds of UN-backed negotiations have failed [ More … ]
The United Nations special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories on Monday issued a blistering criticism of Israel’s policies, only a week after a UN panel charged the country with the crime of apartheid. In [ More … ]
Most of the Syrian experts have already admitted that the Astana peace talks promote an early settlement of the Syrian crisis. Nowadays, it can also be noted, that these negotiations in Astana have shown high [ More … ]
NAGEHAN ALÇI* An important phase of the Cyprus talks in Geneva has drawn to a close. The Cyprus question, which has come to epitomize the concept of intractability, has now provoked hopeful excitement for a [ More … ]
Hopes for a peace deal in Cyprus stalled on Friday over a decades-old dispute, with the rival sides at loggerheads over the future of Turkish troops on the divided island. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan [ More … ]
Cyprus reunification talks in Geneva are in the ‘final stage,” the foreign ministry announced late Wednesday. During the talks, both the Turkish and Greek Cypriot parties detailed their proposals regarding territorial boundaries in the long-divided [ More … ]
Guarantor states, UN and EU should support upcoming peace talks over Cyprus issue in Geneva, Mustafa Akıncı says President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus Mustafa Akıncı has urged all parties to work with [ More … ]
BY: FİKRET BİLA* The Cyprus talks are expected to restart next week in Geneva. The Greek Cyprus administration is like a reluctant seller. It is a full member of the European Union, representing the entire [ More … ]
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