Nicosia, Cyprus. United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin said Tuesday that Wednesday’s tripartite meeting with President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman will be “of substance.” She said she expects news on confidence-building measures.
Holguin’s meetings with the two leaders
Holguin spoke after a one-on-one meeting with Erhurman, saying that on Wednesday “we are to take a look at both sides’ concerns about the way that we will resume talks.” She added that she is “expectant that tomorrow we will have some news about the confidence-building measures.”
“I hope that the leaders deliver something for the confidence-building measures and continue working,” she said.
Earlier Tuesday, following a one-on-one meeting with Christodoulides, Holguin said “not much progress” had been achieved on confidence-building measures since the previous tripartite meeting.
Second tripartite meeting in six weeks
Wednesday’s meeting will be the second tripartite meeting in six weeks. After the previous tripartite meeting, the sides released a joint statement saying that “the real aim is the solution of the Cyprus problem with political equality as described by the United Nations security council resolutions.”
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