‘The Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General, former Colombian Foreign Minister Ms. Holguin, was travelling to the island, she was talking to the parties, only to find that the parties are very far apart from the compromised solution that maybe found’ President of the Security Council for July and Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia said, during the Press Briefing at UNHQ in New York.
Replying to a CNA’s question Ambassador Nebenzia pointed out that ‘is unfortunate but that last already certain time we had an opportunity in 2017 in Crans-Montana, which was unfortunately lost and since then there was no visible, tangible progress on the Cyprus negotiations’.
‘Moreover, we see the toughening of positions of certain plans. Now there is the question of extending the mandate of Holguin, but that’s completely within the prerogative of the Secretary General, because she is his Personal Envoy not the envoy of the Security Council nor of the SG’s Special Representative. Le
t’s see. In fact, it’s for him to make the decision’ the Russian diplomat said.
‘On Colin Stweart’s regular briefing by the UNFICYP, that he has on the developments on the ground, on the issues that they are facing. I don’t expect anything extraordinary from this briefing’ he added.
Source: Cyprus News Agency