Yesterday, Foreign Minister Özdil Nami spoke at a panel discussion organized by Turkish students of Yale University. Minister Nami, who is the first Turkish Cypriot Minister to speak at Yale University, made a presentation about the Cyprus issue and answered the questions of students and academicians. During his speech, Nami emphasized that the Cyprus issue [...]

Foreign Minister Özdil Nami met yesterday with Halid Bin Muhammed El-Atiyye, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Qatar, within the framework of his contacts in New York. Foreign Minister Nami, who met with the Foreign Minister of Qatar at its UN Permanent Mission, conveyed information to his counterpart regarding the latest stage of the Cyprus negotiation [...]

Foreign Minister Özdil Nami has met with Abdirrahman Dualeh Beileh, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Somalia, within the framework of his New York contacts. At the meeting which took place yesterday, Foreign Minister Nami conveyed information to Foreign Minister Beileh of the brotherly Muslim country of Somalia pertaining to the latest stage reached at the [...]

Within the framework of his contacts at the 69th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Foreign Minister Özdil Nami has met with Shamil Aleskerov, Secretary General of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO), of which the TRNC is an observing member. In addition to providing Secretary General Aleskerov with information on the [...]

Foreign Minister Özdil Nami and his delegation have departed the Island today for New York to attend the Annual Coordination Meeting of the Organization of Islamic Conference Foreign Ministers within the framework of the 69th Session of the UN General Assembly. Foreign Minister Nami will also conduct bilateral meetings within the framework of his New [...]

Foreign Minister Nami received today the new Board of Directors of the North Cyprus Young Businessmen Association (YBA). Mr. Ceyhun Tunalı, President of the YBA, stated the primary aim of their visit as introducing the new Board of Directors to Foreign Minister Özdil Nami, and obtaining information from Minister Nami on the recent developments pertaining [...]

Foreign Minister Özdil Nami has met with Stefan Füle, the European Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighborhood Policies in Brussels. At the meeting which took place in a friendly atmosphere, Minister Nami conveyed to Commissioner Füle his thoughts regarding the ongoing negotiation process on the island, and particularly expressed that with the appointment of Mr. Espen [...]

Minister of Foreign Affairs Özdil Nami met today with Espen Barth Eide, the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General’s Special Advisor on Cyprus. Minister Nami congratulated Eide on his new appointment and expressed his hope that with this appointment, the negotiation process will gain momentum. During the meeting, Minister Nami also expressed his views regarding the latest [...]

Minister of Foreign Affairs Özdil Nami met yesterday with the Rt. Hon. David Lidington, Minister of State for Europe of the United Kingdom. During the meeting which lasted nearly an hour, Minister Nami described the current stage of the negotiation process, along with the various challenges of the process and reasons behind its stagnation. Foreign [...]

Within the framework of his London contacts, Foreign Minister Özdil Nami met today with Lord Sharkey, Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus in the UK Parliament, and Baroness Meral Ece, Vice-Chair of the Group. Nami briefed Sharkey and Ece regarding the latest stage reached in the Cyprus negotiation [...]