UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, announced on Wednesday the convention of another 5+1 meeting on the Cyprus problem, after adequate preparations on confidence building, methodology and substance, taking into account the convergences already achieved.
In statements following his joint meeting with the President of the Republic, Nikos Christodoulides, and the Turkish Cypriot leader, Tufan Erhurman, at the United Nations Protected Area at Nicosia airport, Guterres said that he has the consensus of both sides and the guarantor powers to move into a five-plus-one meeting, but with an adequate preparation on confidence building, preparation on methodology, and preparation on substance, ‘because I don’t want to have more five-plus-one meetings without results’, while when asked about a deadline for the meeting, he said it was not defined.
He also noted that a solution in Cyprus is absolutely crucial, “not only to preserve the interests and the peace of the Cyprus people, but also as a factor of stability in what is becoming a dangerously instable region”.
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