UK stands ready to support work of UN Secretary-General’s personal envoy in Cyprus María Ángela Holguín Cuéllar, UK Minister for Europe Leo Docherty wrote today on X following a meeting with Holguin on Thursday at the Foreign Office.
‘2024 will mark 50 years of a divided Cyprus. Today I met María Angela Holguín Cuéllar, UN Secretary General’s Personal Envoy on Cyprus. The UK stands ready to support her work with the leaders to begin a new chapter’ Doherty wrote on X.
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.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres appointed María Ángela Holguín Cuéllar of Colombia as his personal envoy for Cyprus, to assume a Good Offices role on his behalf and search for common ground on the way forward in the Cyprus issue.
Source: Cyprus News Agency