Greek Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis will meet on Friday in Athens with the UN Secretary General’s Personal Envoy on Cyprus, María Angela Holguín.
The meeting will take place at 7:00 p.m. local time.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis had on Thursday a telephone conversation with the President of the Republic of Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulides, focusing on developments in the Cyprus issue.
Holguin visits Greece and then Turkey, following her one week visit to Cyprus, during which he held separate meetings with the two leaders, President Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader, Tufan Erhurman, as well as a joint meeting with them.
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. A new informal meeting in broader format is expected to take place.
María Angela Holguín, the UN Secretary-General’s Personal Envoy on Cyprus, is tasked to engage with the parties, while former European Commissioner Johannes Hahn, designated by the Commission as Special Envoy for Cyprus, is also expected to contribute to the settlement process, in cooperation with Holguín.