Nicosia: Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides holds a meeting with Greece’s Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, on Saturday in Athens, ahead of the informal meeting in Geneva on the Cyprus issue.
According to Cyprus News Agency, President Christodoulides is scheduled to arrive at the Maximos Mansion at noon, for a meeting with Mitsotakis, ahead of the expanded meeting on the Cyprus issue, to be held on March 17 and 18, in Geneva.
Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos, Government Spokesperson Konstantinos Letymbiotis, Deputy Minister for European Affairs Marilena Raouna, and the Greek Cypriot negotiator Menelaos Menelaou, will be accompanying the President to Athens, among others, it said.
On Friday, President Christodoulides discussed the informal expanded meeting with British Minister of State for Europe and North America, Stephen Doughty, who was in Cyprus for contacts ahead of the meeting.
The President will return to Cyprus early this afternoon. Cyprus has been divided since 1974, when Turkey invaded and occupied its northern third. Repeated rounds of UN-led peace talks have so far failed to yield results due to Turkish intransigence. The latest round of negotiations, in July 2017 at the Swiss resort of Crans-Montana, ended inconclusively.