Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader have agreed to “immediately re-engage” negotiations on the Cyprus issue, a UN statement said early Friday morning, after their first meeting since the impasse at Mont Pelerin.
The statement said: “The leaders have decided to immediately re-engage in their negotiations and have instructed their negotiators to continue meeting in order to achieve further progress on all outstanding issues interdependently. The leaders will also meet as required.”
The UN added that Anastasiades and Akinci will meet in Geneva on January 9, 2017, and that on January 11, both sides will present their respective maps for territorial adjustments.
“From the 12th of January, a Conference on Cyprus will be convened with the added participation of the guarantor powers. Other relevant parties shall be invited as needed,” the UN statement said.
Anastasiades and Akinci met a UN High Commissioner Elizabeth Spehar’s residence at 8pm on Thursday evening at the invitation of UN Secretary General Special Adviser Espen Barth Eide.
Eide discussed with both leaders separately on Thursday.
He said that Anastasiades and Akinci had expressed a “strong desire to return to the table and move forward.”
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