The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus welcomes the cross visits of the negotiators of the two Leaders to Ankara and Athens on 27 February 2014 and considers this an extremely positive development. Following the simultaneous visits of the negotiators of the Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot Leaders with the [...]

UK Foreign Office Head of European Affairs Department Louise De Souza and the Head of Cyprus Affairs Matthew Deith visited TRNC Foreign Minister Ozdil Nami in his office yesterday. The latest stage reached in the Cyprus issue was discussed at the meeting. [...]

TRNC Foreign Affairs Ministry and Islamic Centre for Development of Trade (ICDT) will organize a joint workshop themed “Export Promotion and Investment Strategies in the context of Globalization”. Director General of ICDT El Hassane Hzaine, high level officials of the Ministries responsible for Economy and Trade in member and observer countries of OIC, the experts [...]

Foreign Minister Özdil Nami has made the following speech at the European Union Socialist Group meeting in Brussels yesterday (18.2.2014): Dear Comrades, It gives me great pleasure to be among you today. I will use this opportunity to give you a concise overview of the current state of negotiations to resolve the Cyprus issue which [...]

Foreign Minister Özdil Nami is going to Brussels on 17th February, Monday to make presentations at the European Policy Center and at the European Union Socialist Group meeting which shall be organized at the European Parliament and also to have official contacts. Özdil Nami shall leave at 04:30 on 17th February Monday and will be accompanied by [...]

At a time when negotiations for a comprehensive solution has resumed, we would like to express our gratitude to Mr. Alexander Downer, the United Nations Secretary General’s Special Adviser to Cyprus for more than five years, for all his endeavours for the settlement of the Cyprus problem. Mr. Downer during his term of office worked [...]

Republic of Turkey Prime Ministry Press Center made a statement about the Cyprus negotiations last night. It was stated in the statement that Turkey desires a fair and permanent political solution to the Cyprus problem as soon as possible and continued as: “Within this framework our government will continue to give constructive support to result [...]

Foreign Minister Özdil Nami has evaluated his contacts in Brussels and the re-launch of the Cyprus negotiations process on BRT. Nami said that he had a positive meeting with the EU Commissioner for Enlargement Füle. Recording that the EU gave great support to the negotiations, Nami said that timing of the re-launch of the negotiations [...]

The President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, and the President of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, issued today the following statement: The European Union welcomes the agreement announced today by the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders on a Joint Declaration, which lays a solid foundation for resumption of negotiations for a [...]

For Immediate Release President Obama and the United States welcome the meeting today of the two Cypriot leaders, Mr. Nicos Anastasiades and Mr. Dervish Eroglu, and the renewal of negotiations on a Cyprus settlement under the auspices of the United Nations.  The Joint Statement agreed by the two leaders reflects a spirit of compromise and [...]