Cyprus - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Cyprus Index / Locations Transcripts Jane Lute ...portfolio was Greece, Turkey, and Cyprus ; Germany and German-speaking Europe... Jake Sullivan ...Nagorno-Karabakh and how to talk about Cyprus without crossing any diplomatic re... Harold Varmus ...government. We worked together on the Cyprus Institute that's transformed science i... ...Institute that's transformed science in Cyprus . I've been to a workshop organized b... Victoria Nuland ...to hear it. We should talk about the Cyprus negotiations, too, but we're going t... ...simultaneously working with Turkey on Cyprus at that point as well. Just to put ... ...second session, primarily to cover the Cyprus peace talks. Ambassador Nuland, befor... ...to talk about your involvement in the Cyprus peace talks. Maybe you can start b... ...when Akıncı gets elected in Northern Cyprus , and he's talking about recommittin... ...the contested seas around the island of Cyprus . So if a settlement could first of al... ...Turkey needed energy, Egypt, Israel. So Cyprus increasingly began to look like i... ...this notion of a united, democratic Cyprus cemented into the European Union... ...Secretary of State John Kerry's trip to Cyprus in December of 2015. I know we went t... ...This is our second session covering the Cyprus peace talks primarily. Once again... ...Let's turn now to talking about the Cyprus peace talks. Maybe you could start b... ...at the time. First of all, the Cyprus conflict had been going on for decades... ...reserves were found off the coast of Cyprus , which had the potential to make bot... ...sides of the island rich and to make Cyprus itself—if it could unite and agree o... ...were offering good terms for helping Cyprus find and exploit what it had. But the... ...I don't think we worried about Cyprus becoming Venezuela; on the contrary... ...of negotiations that are happening in Cyprus ? They are coming to us askin... ...to get a pipeline between Egypt and Cyprus . There was exploration of oil and ga... ...wasn't ready. Now the UN never leaves Cyprus , obviously, because they monitor an... ...in 2013. I make my first trip to Cyprus in February of 2014, but I'll come bac... ...were. But that was my first trip to Cyprus , was in February of '14. Looking back... ...full flame at that time, trying to keep Cyprus and Ukraine in focus simultaneously—i... ...didn't know Eroğlu; I had never been to Cyprus before—landing and going first to se... ...different. Vice President Biden goes to Cyprus for the first time in May of 2014 an... ...time we'd had somebody at that rank in Cyprus in decades. So it was a very big deal... ...send warships into the waters off of Cyprus to protect their exploration vessels... ...predicted, the demographic in Turkish Cyprus was changing. People wanted to vote fo... ...interested. He had been fascinated by Cyprus and by the difficulties of th... ...to move sticky issues. I was in Cyprus the middle of September. Vice Presiden... ...building towards a Kerry trip to Cyprus , which happened the first week o... ...was obviously gone. The support for Cyprus was handled at a lower level in th... ...one kind, good or bad. He had been in Cyprus and cemented with Anastasiades and, ... ...Erdoğan's head really was on whether a Cyprus settlement was a priority for him i... ...easier. You're jumping from Ukraine to Cyprus . It's easier than coming across th... ...your reflections on that were, with the Cyprus peace talks in particular. What was th... ...Biden is going to care less about Cyprus than he did as vice president... Show more... Related Topics go to the Chicago Chicago go to the Wartime Presidency Wartime Presidency go to the Healthcare Healthcare go to the Arts and Humanities Arts and Humanities go to the Immigration Immigration