Christodoulides and Erhurman to meet on Tuesday over efforts to restart Cyprus talks
The leaders will meet at UN offices at the old Nicosia airport as Christodoulides seeks substantive discussion on new proposals to restart negotiations.
Nicosia, Cyprus. President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman are due to hold talks at 3.30pm on Tuesday at UN offices on the old Nicosia airport site. Christodoulides said the meeting was intended to explore in greater detail how negotiations on the Cyprus problem could resume.
Efforts to restart negotiations
Speaking on Monday at the presidential palace after meeting the mayor of Morphou, Christodoulides said he was working to turn the current opportunity into renewed negotiations. He said the meeting with Erhurman had been arranged at his side’s initiative.
The president said some developments represented progress in his view and could provide a foundation for restarting talks. He added that the UN had completed the convergence document, which would serve as the basis for renewed negotiations.
New proposals awaiting consideration
Christodoulides said the 19-point proposal he presented to Erhurman during their previous meeting contained new, specific proposals. These differed from earlier submissions that had not drawn a positive response from the Turkish Cypriot side.
He said his side was not maintaining positions it knew had already been rejected, but had offered fresh proposals and ideas concerning methodology, substance and terms of reference. He expressed satisfaction with the UN’s favourable reception of them.
According to Christodoulides, the Turkish Cypriot side was to consider both the proposals presented at the previous meeting and the approach taken. He said it had neither accepted nor rejected them, and voiced hope that Tuesday’s meeting would allow substantive discussion of the new proposals and create conditions for negotiations to resume.
Opportunity during Guterres’s tenure
Christodoulides reiterated his view that an opportunity existed during the tenure of current UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and said he intended to make full use of it.
He expressed hope that negotiations could resume within that period, adding that his side was also in contact with candidates to become the next UN Secretary-General.
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