Nicosia, Cyprus. United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin will meet President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman in the buffer zone on Wednesday. The joint meeting will address differences identified in her separate talks with both leaders and Erhurman’s four-point plan.
Agenda and expectations
Holguin said the meeting’s agenda includes addressing the differences she identified during separate meetings with both leaders on Tuesday, as well as the four-point plan set out by Erhurman in previous months. “This is the agenda tomorrow [Wednesday] and I hope there will be progress,” she said.
Confidence-building measures
After her meeting with Christodoulides, Holguin highlighted the need to strengthen confidence-building measures (CBMs) as part of the process. She said progress depends on advances made by the two leaders on CBMs.
Prospects for an enlarged 5+1 meeting
Holguin said that without advances on CBMs, convening an enlarged 5+1 meeting would be “very difficult.” The enlarged format would include both communities, representatives from the three guarantor powers Greece, Turkey and Britain, and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. “There has not been enough progress,” she said.
Meeting location and time
The meeting will be held at the residence of the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative in Cyprus and head of Unficyp, Khassim Diagne, located in the buffer zone, at 11am.
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