Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias is due to meet in Athens at 15:00 on Friday with the UN Secretary General’s Special Adviser on Cyprus Espen Barth Eide.
Eide’s meeting comes few day after the meeting of President Nicos Anastasiades meeting with the Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci. Both leaders have requested the UN to prepare the continuation of the Conference on Cyprus in early March. Their next meeting is expected on February 9.
The UN official during his stay in Athens, will also meet with the diplomatic advisor of the Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras, Vangelis Kalpadaki.
CYPRUS-GREECE COORDINATE ACTION
Athens is in constant communication and coordination with Cyprus over negotiations. Greece have repeatedly stated that is committed to achieving a just, sustainable, solution, based on UN Security Council resolutions, with elimination of the guarantees and the withdrawal of the occupying troops.
According to sources President Nicos Anastasiades and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will meet in Nicosia in the next following days as they island is preparing for a new Conference on its ethnical issue.
The same sources confirm that Athens and Nicosia have various issues to discuss in order for the Conference to continue, including the demand from Turkey that the four basic freedoms be provided to Turkish citizens following a Cyprus solution, Greco-Turkish relations, the customs union between Turkey and the EU.
Source: SigmaLive Greek
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