The UN Secretary-General’s personal envoy on Cyprus, Maria Angela Holguin is set to meet with President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Monday art of the preparations for the informal expanded meeting in New York from July 16 to 17.
The first meeting on Holguin’s schedule for the day is with Tatar, scheduled for 9 am, followed by a meeting with President Christodoulides at 11 am.
Holguin had previously visited Greece, Turkey, the UK, Brussels, and Paris as part of her efforts on the Cyprus issue.
During her June visit to Athens, she told Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis that while there had been some progress on certain matters, key expectations remained unmet. Gerapetritis reaffirmed Athens’ commitment to a solution within the agreed framework.
Meanwhile, UN special representative and head of the peacekeeping force in Cyprus (Unficyp) Colin Stewart, who is retiring from the United Nations in August, will travel to New York where he will brief the UN Security Council for a last time as part of its regular biannual consultations on the Cyprus issue on July 14.
The expanded meeting follow the Geneva format. It will kick-off with a dinner on the July 16, followed by bilateral talks on the morning of 17 July and a subsequent plenary session.