President Nikos Christodoulides, expressed on Monday evening his satisfaction with the meeting he had with UN Assistant Secretary-General, Miroslav Jenca, noting that the meeting was very constructive. In addition, he expressed once again the hope for a joint meeting with the UN Secretary General and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar in New York.
In statements, upon his arrival to an anti-occupation event in Nicosia, the President said that “I expressed the hope, the optimism that there will be a joint meeting with the Secretary-General at the end of the first official week of the United Nations General Assembly.”
“I repeated my proposal, if it were possible to have a joint meeting even tonight. Unfortunately, the message I received in the afternoon was once again negative,” he noted
The President noted that the meeting with the UN official was very constructive. “I am very happy from what I have heard from Mr. Jenca, first and foremost that he recognises the readiness of our side to resume the talks from where they left off,” he noted.
In addition, President Christodoulides said that he considers it important that there will be meetings in the next few days also abroad. Meetings which “will be decisive on how the whole effort to restart the talks will develop,” he concluded.
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. The latest round of negotiations, in July 2017 at the Swiss resort of Crans-Montana ended inconclusively.
Source: Cyprus News Agency