Maria Angela Holguin, the UN secretary-general’s personal envoy for Cyprus, met with President Nikos Christodoulides at the presidential palace on Saturday and is scheduled to meet Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on May 26.
“We agreed to work hard this month to achieve results based on the March agreement. We want to present concrete outcomes ahead of the mutually agreed-upon measures in July, and that is my focus during this visit,” Holguin said after a 75-minute meeting with Christodoulides.
The March agreement included initiatives such as opening more crossing points, forming a technical committee on youth, and other projects within the buffer zone and across the island.
Holguin will remain in Cyprus until May 31, holding discussions with representatives from both communities and other key stakeholders. Her mission is to secure tangible progress on confidence-building measures agreed in March, ahead of a broader informal UN meeting planned for July.
Holguin previously served as personal envoy from January to July 2024. The European commission has also appointed Johannes Hahn as special envoy for Cyprus to support the settlement process alongside her.