Both the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders are committed to making the Cyprus talks’ process work, UN deputy spokesperson Farhan Haq said on Monday.
He told the press that UN Secretary General Special Adviser on Cyprus Espen Barth Eide said it was clear to him both President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci are committed to the process, after meeting the UN Envoy had in Nicosia on Friday and Saturday.
Speaking during the regular press briefing at the UN Headquarters in New York, Haq made reference to the Cyprus peace process, saying that Eide had a meeting last Saturday, “with the Turkish Cypriot leader Mr Mustafa Akinci in Nicosia, following a meeting with the Greek Cypriot leader, Mr Nicos Anastasiades, the previous Friday.”
Eide also said that the coming weeks would be decisive for the fate of the process, and that this is a time of strategic leadership, Haq added.
Anastasiades and Akinci have been engaged in UN-led talks since May 2015 with an aim to reunify the island under a federal roof.
Akinci walked out of a meeting in mid-February, in the framework of the UN-led negotiations on the Cyprus problem.
Source: CNA
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