News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

Maintaining security across the buffer zone and keeping the situation calm remain UNFICYP’s top priority. UNFICYP, in close collaboration with the UNHCR, is providing immediate humanitarian assistance including food, water, shelter, and emergency medical assistance to the most vulnerable people…

Digitalization is transforming our world, offering unprecedented opportunities to accelerate sustainable development. Digital technologies such as mobile devices, services, and artificial intelligence are instrumental in advancing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In Cyprus, we celebrate the…

Major Sania Safdar from Pakistan is the first peacekeeper from UNFICYP to receive the 2023 Certificate of Recognition for gender advocacy issued by the United Nations Department for Peace Operations in New York. The award was presented to her by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in…

Are you 18 to 30 years old and want to learn about environmental peacebuilding? Do you want to develop and implement an action to address environmental issues in an intercommunal team? Then this your opportunity to become part of the inspiring network of the UN Youth Champions for Environment and…

UNFICYP often engages youth in various programs to promote peace and development. By giving young people the opportunity to act as peacekeepers, the UN not only amplifies their voices but also empowers them to contribute to global peace efforts. It’s inspiring to see the next generation taking an…

On 11 September, UNFICYP peacekeepers met the Canadian Ambassador on Women, Peace and Security, Jacqueline O’Neill, who visited UNFICYP to learn about how the Mission is implementing the Women, Peace, and Security agenda in Cyprus. Ambassador O’Neill also asked the peacekeepers about their…

On 21 September, UNFICYP hosted an ‘artvocacy’ event in Ledra Palace Hotel where two Cypriot artists, Ramadan Nalcıoğlu and Vicky Panagi, came together with young people from across the divide, activists and UN peacekeepers and painted a mural in one of the walls outside the hotel to mark…

Apply here ! Applications will be accepted until 10 October. Limited spots available. Are you 18 to 35 years old and interested in history, dialogue and peacebuilding? Join us at for a day of history, dialogue and peacebuilding at a workshop on ‘Intercommunal dynamics in Cyprus' mixed communities…

“I’m proud to be the first women to lead the Slovak contingent in Cyprus as part of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus,” says Lieutenant Colonel Katarína Gargalíková. Born in Prešov, Slovakia in 1979, she joined the Slovak Armed Forces in 2003 and has served in Cyprus since September…

The Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Cyprus, Mr. Colin Stewart, welcomes the arrival of Mr. Pierre Gentile, who assumed today his responsibilities as the new UN Third Member of the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP). Mr. Gentile succeeds Mr. Paul-Henri Arni, who concluded…

In early October, the UN in Cyprus welcomed the new group of UN Youth Champions for Environment and Peace, who joined the 4 th edition of the programme on the island. The group of 24 young people from across the divide took part in a series of workshops over the last 2 weekends in efforts to equip…

This week, UNFICYP welcomed Canadian, Finnish, and Swedish veterans who served in Cyprus since the Mission was established in 1964. This year, the Mission is marking 60 years in service of peace in Cyprus with a series of events organized to pay tribute to all those who have contributed to the…