In early October, the UN in Cyprus welcomed the new group of UN Youth Champions for Environment and Peace, who joined the 4th edition of the programme on the island.

“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.

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 a