The press statement warned that assaulting UN personnel is a crime under international law and called for both sides to return to formal negotiations in order to put an end to the 50-year conflict.
Plans by Turkish authorities to build a mosque at a historically significant Orthodox Christian monastery have rubbed salt in the island’s sectarian wounds, resulting in calls for the European Commission to protect the island’s Christian heritage.
The U.S. secretary of state urged Greece and Turkey “to not take any unilateral actions or use any charged rhetoric that would only make things more difficult and more challenging.”
