No to partition and no to enosis

Like many politicians of his generation Jack Straw, Britain’s former Labour foreign secretary, who recently wrote an article in the Independent newspaper in support of

Labour MP says Straw was ‘ill informed’

Britain’s Labour MP Bambos Charalambous has described an article by former British foreign secretary Jack Straw calling for the island’s partition as “ill-informed” and not

‘Accept the division of Cyprus’

Jack Straw, the former British Foreign Secretary snubbed by the late President Tassos Papadopoulos for meeting in the north with a Turkish Cypriot leader in

Christofias going to New York ‘ready’, spokesman says

POLITICAL leaders and the President yesterday reached a consensus over various issues concerning Demetris Christofias’ upcoming meeting with the United Nations General-Secretary and Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu in New York next week, the government spokesman said.

“We are going to New York ready, with very clear positions,” Stefanos Stefanou said.

The informal leaders’ council met yesterday and was briefed by Christofias about next week’s meeting with Ban Ki-moon and Eroglu.

The briefing was followed by “a very constructive discussion in the informal leaders’ council and I should say there was understanding on various things,” Stefanou said.