UN Secretary – General, Antonio Guterres, has urged the parties to engage constructively in the continuing consultations so that meaningful talks aiming to solve the Cyprus problem can again resume, stressing that the UN Security Council has made clear in numerous resolutions over nearly fifty years that there is only one sovereign state on the island of Cyprus.
Moreover, Guterres reiterated, in his good offices mission report, an unofficial copy of which was handed over on Friday to the UN Security Council members, his concern over developments in the fenced-off area of Famagusta (Varosha).
At the same time, he noted “the realities on the island”, and that the parties have expressed to him “the importance of finding a practicable framework within which genuine political equality would manifest as shared effective participation in the political and economic
Source: Cyprus News Agency