UNSG personal envoy Maria Angela Holguin is having meetings on Tuesday with political party leaders as part of her visit to the island.
Diplomatic sources told CNA that Holguin will meet with Democratic Rally leader Annita Demetriou. She will also visit AKEL General Secretary Stephanos Stephanou.
Tomorrow she may attend The Technical Committee open day which will be held at Ledra Palace from 1800 to 2100.
Holguin also plans to meet the two leaders again probably Saturday although this is not confirmed. She is also planning to meet the negotiators although this meeting has not been confirmed either.
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.
In 2025 the Secretary-General hosted two informal meetings on Cyprus, in March in Geneva and in July in New York, while a tripartite meeting with the Cyprus leaders was also held in late September, at the end of the UN General Assembly High Level Week. María Angela Holguín, the UN Secretary-General’s Personal Envoy on Cyprus, is tasked to engage with the parties.
UN Secretary-General’s Personal Envoy, María Ángela Holguín, held on Monday, in Nicosia, separate meetings with President of the Republic Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman.
She said she was working, along with the Secretary General, for a 5 plus 1 meeting on Cyprus, in statements after a meeting in Nicosia with President Nikos Christodoulides.
Speaking to the media after an around 45-minute meeting with President Christodoulides, Holguin said she was glad to be back to Cyprus and that it was a ‘very good meeting.’
‘We are preparing the meeting of the 5 plus 1 with the Secretary General’, she said, adding that after Cyprus she would travel to Athens and to Ankara, before going back to Colombia and is to later return to Europe and visit Brussels.
She expressed optimism about the preparation of such a meeting.