Vote to renew Unficyp mandate delayed until Friday

The United Nations security council’s vote on whether to extend the mandate of the UN’s peacekeeping force in Cyprus (Unficyp) for another year has been delayed until Friday.

It had been initially foreseen that the vote would take place on Thursday at 3pm New York time, 10pm Cyprus time, but the vote has now been delayed by another day.

Unficyp has a rolling one-year mandate which was most recently extended on January 31 last year, with all 15 security council members at the time...