CYPRUS: UN envoy to meet Cypriot leaders next week

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UN envoy Jane Holl Lute arrives in Cyprus next week to hold talks with Cypriot leaders on the next steps to resume stalled reunification talks.


Lute is scheduled to criss-cross the divide to hold meetings with Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci on October 31.

UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, said in his latest report he would instruct Lute to gauge the true extent of convergence on key issues and the willingness of the sides to incorporate novel proposals as part of an overall solution toward a common future that they themselves can envisage.

Cyprus chief of mission Elizabeth Spehar will host a face-to-face meeting of Cypriot leaders in the United Nations compound in Nicosia on 26 October.

It is their first official meeting – apart from a dinner date in April – since Cyprus negotiations broke down in July 2017 at the Swiss resort of Crans-Montana.