Day: October 15, 2021

Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, Global Director of UN SDSN, has said that Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades’ initiative on climate change is of tremendous significance and pledged to offer full support for its implementation.

Addressing a reception hosted by the President in honour of the participants of the ‘2nd International Conference on Climate Change in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East: Challenges and Solutions’ in Paphos, Sachs conveyed his “tremendous satisfaction and commitment” to do everything that “we can to support you in this tremendous venture and this visionary initiative”.

During the two-day conference, Anastasiades said Cyprus is determined to take all necessary steps at a national level to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.

Source: Cyprus News Agency

Cyprus President, Nicos Anastasiades, underlined the need for coordinating a concerted regional response in addressing climate change and its effects in his address during a dinner hosted on Thursday evening, at the Presidential Palace, in honor of the participants in the 2nd International Conference on Climate Change in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East.

Anastasiades expressed his sincere feelings of gratitude for the participants` “invaluable contribution in our efforts to establish a comprehensive Regional Action Plan for tackling climate change and its effects in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East region.”

“An initiative undertaken by the Republic of Cyprus, with the aim of coordinating a concerted regional response in addressing the challenge we are facing, in line with the Paris Agreement goals,” he added.

Source: Cyprus News Agency

Director Panikos Chrysanthou and poet Nese Yasin received Friday the European Citizen’s Prize 2021 for their cooperation which led to documentaries ‘’Our Wall’’ and “My Homeland”.

The award ceremony was held at the Home for Cooperation in the buffer zone in Nicosia and the two artists spoke with words of passion and love about their common land and their struggle for reunification.

Yiasin in her speech said that both her and Panikos are two people who were hurt from the past and fight for the future.

Source: Cyprus News Agency

Theresa Villiers, MP for Chipping Barnet in north London, has written to the newly appointed UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, to highlight the importance of freedom for Cyprus.

She forwarded on to Truss a letter written on behalf of the Board of British Cypriots by Elias Dinenis, Doros Partasides, Elissa Ellina, Stella Protopapa-Dinenis, and Antonis Savvides. The letter was highlighting and condemning Turkey’s negative stance and provocative actions regarding the Cyprus issue.

Source: Cyprus News Agency

Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades will denunciate to the UN and the EU the latest provocation on the part of the Turkish occupying illegal regime which has granted a large parcel of land to the Turkish occupying forces in the island, Government Spokesperson Marios Pelekanos has said.

In a written statement on Friday, Pelekanos said that “following the pseudostate`s decision to grant an area of land in the occupied areas and in particular at the Apostle Andreas Cape to the occupying army, the President of the Republic Nicos Anastasiades will send a letter to the UN Secretary General, the Security Council members and EU leaders of state and government, to denunciate the new illegal and provocative action on the part of the occupying regime.”

The Government Spokesperson adds that during in the upcoming European Council, in Brussels, President Anastasiades wi

Source: Cyprus News Agency

The situation regarding the fenced off area of Varosha, as well as developments in the Eastern Mediterranean, will be on the agenda of Monday’s Foreign Affairs Council of the EU which will take place in Luxembourg, a European official told journalists during a media briefing today.

The official explained that the issue has been placed on the agenda by High Representative Josep Borrell in accordance with his statement on behalf of the EU in July, in which he had said that EU Ministers would “consider actions at their next meeting, in case of non-reversal of Turkey’s actions”.

“Because Turkey has not reverted its steps and in practical terms nothing has changed from July when the change of status was decided, we will be hearing from member states what should be done” the official said, referring to the unilateral change of the status of part of the fenced-o

Source: Cyprus News Agency