GENEVA, April 29 — Three days of informal talks in Geneva with rival Cypriot leaders failed to find a breakthrough that could pave the way towards resolving the decades-old dispute, the UN chief concluded today. The United Nations is trying to mediate a deal for the divided island, nearly six...
This handout picture taken and released on April 28, 2021 by the United Nations Office in Geneva shows a general view during the opening of a 5+1 Meeting on Cyprus. — United Nations / AFP picGENEVA, April 29 — Three days of informal talks in Geneva with rival Cypriot leaders failed to find a breakthrough that could pave the way towards resolving the decades-old dispute, the UN chief concluded today.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres travelled from New York to Geneva to oversee the three days of talks in various formats, but said they had not managed to overcome the differences between the Greek and Turkish Cypriot positions. The talks were attended by the Greek Cypriot leader Nicos Anastasiades, the Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar, and the foreign ministers of Greece, Turkey and Britain — the three guarantors of the island’s 1960 independence — plus the UN.
“We have been able to agree that I will convene in the near future another meeting of the five plus one — the five plus the United Nations — again with the objective to move in the direction of reaching common ground to allow for formal negotiations to start,” he said.
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