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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
NICOSIA – American diplomat Jane Holl Lute, the latest United Nations envoy sent to Cyprus to try to get the squabbling Cypriot and Turkish sides to sit down and talk about reunification, almost 45 years after an unlawful invasion, is getting nowhere either.
Cypriot government officials said there are “very serious difficulties” in rekindling formal talks to reunify the ethnically-split island nation.
But they insisted there will be no easing up in UN-assisted efforts to get Greek-Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots back to the negotiating table after the last round of talks collapsed in July, 2017 at the Swiss resort of Crans-Montana when Turkey insisted on keeping an army on the occupied northern third and wanted the right to militarily intervene again
Andreas Mavroyiannis, the chief negotiator for the majority Greek-Cypriots – whose government is in the Eurpean Union that Turkey wants to join at the same it won’t recognize Cyprus and bars its ships and planes – said there’s no other option but to resume talks, although expectations for an immediate restart are low.
He didn’t explain how that would happen as neither side is really talking about talking again and Lute’s shuttles between Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish-Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci have proved fruitless.
Akinci again accused Greek-Cypriots of wavering on giving Turkish-Cypriots a say in all decision-making in an envisioned federation even though they comprise only about 20 percent of the population.
Anastasiades replied that Akinci’s demands aim to put Cyprus under Turkey’s “complete control,” indicating that it’s unlikely the two would sit down again, five years after they started talking amid much international fanfare a breakthrough was likely, which didn’t happen.
(Material from the Associated Press was used in this report)
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
LONDON (AP) — The British Museum on Thursday appointed National Portrait Gallery chief Nicholas Cullinan as its new director, as the 265-year-old institution grapples with the apparent theft of hundreds of artifacts and growing international scrutiny of its collection.
ATHENS - The European Union needs to get involved in the case of the two-year jail sentence given ethnic Greek Fredi Beleri who was elected Mayor of the seaside town of Himare and said the trial was a farce to get him and protect Prime Minister Edi Rama’s business friends.
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