The Cyprus issue is expected to dominate the political news this week, starting with the meeting of the President of the Republic Nikos Anastasiadis with the Special Envoy of the UN Secretary General for the Cypriot Jane Hall Lut, at the Presidential Palace, today Tuesday.
Ms. Lut arrived in Cyprus from New York yesterday afternoon and early this morning will attend a meeting with the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in Cyprus, Elizabeth Spehar. At 09.30 he will have a meeting with the President of the Republic, Nikos Anastasiadis, at the Presidential Palace, and in the afternoon he will meet with the Turkish Cypriot leader, Ersin Tatar.
The purpose of her consultations is to find out if a common ground can be found between the parties, which does not exist so far, as a United Nations source stated last week in KYPE.
The same source noted that the UN Secretary General is not obliged to convene a new informal 5 + 1 press conference on the Cyprus issue and that Ms. Lut will not suggest to Mr. Guterres the holding of a new informal conference unless he sees that there is an audience. ground “on which to build. “And at the moment there is no common ground,” he added.
However, President Anastasiadis is also scheduled to meet with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres next Friday in Brussels on the sidelines of the EU Summit, which will take place on June 24 and 25 in the Belgian capital and he has been invited to attend. Mr. Guterres.
As President Anastasiadis had stated on Thursday, when asked about it, he said that in the meeting with Mr. Guterres he would tell him that everything should move within the framework of the UN resolutions and the terms of the Secretary General's mandate.
Regarding the EU's reaction to Turkey at the forthcoming Council of Heads of State, and in the light of the preparatory conference held last week and its statement that the EU should be clear about how to react in the face of continuing Turkish provocations, President Anastasiadis said that “we are talking about an obligation of the EU towards a member state”.
Source: KYPE
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