{"id":207,"date":"2017-08-15T08:54:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T08:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/cyprus\/?page_id=207"},"modified":"2026-03-24T09:11:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T09:11:48","slug":"international-organisations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/cyprus\/country-information\/international-organisations\/","title":{"rendered":"International organisations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to UNHCR, there are a number of international organisations that are represented in Cyprus, including other UN agencies, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/cyprus.representation.ec.europa.eu\/index_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European Commission Representation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iom.int\/countries\/cyprus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Organisation for Migration (IOM)<\/a>\u00a0is the leading inter-governmental organisation in the field of migration and works closely with governmental, intergovernmental and non-governmental partners.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/unficyp.unmissions.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP)<\/a> was established in 1964\u00a0 and maintains the buffer zone between the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities of the island.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cy.undp.org\/content\/cyprus\/en\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)<\/a> works to support the ongoing peace and confidence building processes in Cyprus by promoting initiatives that encourage dialogue and cooperation between the communities of Cyprus.<\/p>\n<p>For more information see the International Organisations under Foreign Diplomatic Missions in Cyprus on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.cy\/mfa\/en\/foreign-diplomatic-missions-to-the-republic-of-cyprus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ministry of Foreign Affairs website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to UNHCR, there are a number of international organisations that are represented in Cyprus, including other UN agencies, and the European Commission Representation. International Organisation for Migration (IOM)\u00a0is the leading inter-governmental organisation in the field of migration and works closely with governmental, intergovernmental and non-governmental partners. The United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":77,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-207","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/cyprus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/cyprus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/cyprus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/cyprus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/cyprus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/cyprus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2478,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/cyprus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207\/revisions\/2478"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/cyprus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/cyprus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}