Kypros Chrysostomides

Chrysostomides died on 1 December 2022, at the age of 80.

Chrysostomides was also the author of two children’s stories namely, Ο Αρλεκίνος της Φεγγαρόπολης (2013) and Στο μικρό τους σπίτι στο μικρό τους χωριό (2021). Both have won critical acclaim and have been included in the syllabus of Cyprus public elementary schools. The Ministry of Education and Culture approved the book in an official letter dated 2 February 2022.

In 2020, he was awarded the Cyprus Business Leader Award by the Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Chrysostomides was a member of the International Chamber of Commerce International Court of Arbitration (ICC) for two consecutive terms, until June 2018. He was a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), serving his second term.

Chrysostomides left this post in 2006 in order to take part in the parliamentary elections of 2006 as a result of which he became a member of the House of Representatives (Cyprus) where he served until March 2008, when he was appointed Minister of Justice and Public Order. He resigned from this post in December 2008 in an act of dignity and assumption of political responsibility following the escape of a convict from the Cyprus Central Prison. At the time, his resignation, was widely acclaimed and praised.

In 1998 he established the movement "Epalxis Anasiggrotisis Kentrou" (’Επαλξη Ανασυγκρότησης Κέντρου): Political Grouping for the Restructure of the Centre. In 2006, he cooperated with AKEL Left-New Powers for the 2006 Cypriot legislative election. During those elections he was elected AKEL Left-New Powers member in the House of Representatives of Cyprus.

Chrysostomides always maintained an avid interest in public affairs and became politically active in the progressive and democratic centre. He has also been involved in the scientific and social life in Cyprus. He was the president of the Political Grouping for the Restructure of the Centre, which was established in 1998.

From 1981 until his appointment as government spokesman in 2003, he practised law from his own law firm in Nicosia. From 2003, when Tassos Papadopoulos became President of Cyprus, he was the government spokesman until 2006.

Chrysostomides married lawyer Eleni G. Polyviou in 1974. They had two daughters, Daphne and Georgia.

In 1973, he was appointed a Corresponding Collaborator at the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law UNIDROIT. In 1999 Cyprus became a full member of UNIDROIT.

For four years (1969–1973) Kypros Chrysostomides worked with the European Commission of Human Rights of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France. He returned to Cyprus in 1973 and began practicing law in Nicosia, shortly before the Coup d'état and the Turkish Invasion in 1974.

During the period 1969–1973 Kypros Chrysostomides worked with the European Commission of Human Rights of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France. During his term at the European Commission, he participated in the Commission’s investigation of the accusations against the Greek Junta for violations of human rights.

Kypros Chrysostomides (Greek: Κύπρος Χρυσοστομίδης, 5 July 1942 – 1 December 2022) was a Cypriot politician and member of the Cyprus Parliament, born in the village of Kathikas in Paphos.