On 27 September, the President of Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulides, and the Turkish Cypriot leader, Ersin Tatar, expressed their commitment to renewed talks on the Cyprus issue following a trilateral meeting with UN Secretary-General António Guterres.
Famagusta, Cyprus © Mena Today
On 27 September, the President of Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulides, and the Turkish Cypriot leader, Ersin Tatar, expressed their commitment to renewed talks on the Cyprus issue following a trilateral meeting with UN Secretary-General António Guterres.
Christodoulides announced that immediately after elections in the Turkish Cypriot community, the Secretary-General’s personal envoy will visit Cyprus, the guarantor powers, and Brussels to prepare the ground for an enlarged conference before the end of the year. The goal, he said, is to resume “substantive talks from where they had been suspended” at Crans-Montana in 2017.
“It is an obligation to do everything possible to succeed,” the Cypriot president stressed, underlining his readiness to work constructively toward a settlement.
Tatar, while voicing support for progress, accused the Greek Cypriot leadership of “a troubling inconsistency between words and deeds,” citing arrests, misuse of INTERPOL, rejection of Turkish Cypriot assistance during wildfires, and continued investment in armaments. Such actions, he argued, “do not serve to build trust or stability.”
Despite his criticism, the Turkish Cypriot leader affirmed his willingness to “maintain a constructive and positive stance” and pursue initiatives that foster cooperation between the two communities.
The UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP), deployed since 1964, continues to monitor ceasefire lines, maintain a buffer zone, and support the Secretary-General’s good offices mission in the absence of a political settlement.
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