Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Tuesday called for construction on the planned road which would link the buffer zone village of Pyla with Arsos in the north to restart.Speaking during a village to the nearby village of Pergamos,

Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) President Ersin Tatar on Monday met Nikos Christodoulides, leader of the island's Greek Cypriot Administration. The meeting was held at the residence of Colin Stewart, special representative and head of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP), in the Mediterranean island's buffer zone.

United Nations under-secretary-general for peacebuilding Rosemary DiCarlo will meet Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on February 10, Tatar’s office announced on Thursday. DiCarlo’s meeting with Tatar is the first date to be announced of her forthcoming trip to Cyprus,

Leaders of the divided Cyprus, Nicos Christodoulides and Ersin Tatar, failed to reach an agreement on opening new crossing points within the UN buffer zone, aimed at fostering trust and economic ties.

President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar are to meet on Monday at the residence of UN Secretary General’s Special Representative Colin Stewart to discuss the opening of new crossing points.

United Nations Chief of Mission in Cyprus Colin Stewart, center, hosts a meeting between the ethnically divided island nation's Greek Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides, right, and the leader of

NICOSIA, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- The leaders of ethnically divided Cyprus held a much-anticipated UN-brokered meeting on Monday, focusing on easing movement across the ceasefire line but stopped short of announcing an immediate agreement on opening new crossing points, the UN mission said in a statement.

Turkey on Wednesday again insisted on a two-state peace accord in ethnically divided Cyprus as the United Nations prepares to meet with all sides in early spring in hopes of restarting formal talks to resolve one of the world's most intractable conflicts.

Turkey insists on a two-state solution for Cyprus as renewed UN talks loom, raising tensions between Greek and Turkish Cypriots. The UN and EU advocate for a federation instead. Talks collapsed in 2017 primarily over military presence on the island.

Ersin Tatar claimed that, as UN Secretary-General’s personal envoy Maria Angela Olgin Guayar wrote in her report, “the federation, which died with the No vote of the Greek Cypriots in 2004 and was then buried at the Crans Montana summit in 2017, is no longer a model for a solution acceptable to both parties.”

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General Secretary Asım Akansoy has called on President Ersin Tatar to engage with political parties ahead of the 5+1 meeting scheduled for March.