The UN-led peace talks, which resumed last week after they were suspended more than a year ago, continue tomorrow with a meeting of the negotiators of the two side, Andreas Mavroyiannis and Kutlet Osersay.
The two are set to discuss procedural matters, according to reliable sources.
The same sources have confirmed to CNA that the visits of the two negotiators to Ankara by Mavroyiannis and to Athens by Ozersay have been set for Thursday 27 February.
This is the first time such meetings will take place, in the context of the Cyprus peace talks.
UNFICYP spokesman Michel Bonnardeaux told CNA today that tomorrow’s meeting is scheduled for 11.00 am and will be attended, apart from the two negotiators, by the Chief of Mission and UN Secretary General’s Special Representative Lisa Buttenheim, the UN Senior Advisor Wlodek Cibor and their associates.
The meeting, which will take place at the UN Protected Area near the now defunct Nicosia International Airport, may also be attended by a legal advisor.
Talks resumed after the leaders of the island’s two community leaders, Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu, agreed on a seven point Joint Declaration outlining their vision of a reunited Cyprus.
Anastasiades and Eroglu agreed that the current status quo is unacceptable and that the political settlement “will be based on a bi-communal, bi-zonal federation with political equality, as set out in the relevant Security Council Resolutions and the High Level Agreements.”
“The united Cyprus, as a member of the United Nations and of the European Union, shall have a single international legal personality and a single sovereignty, which is defined as the sovereignty which is enjoyed by all member States of the United Nations under the UN Charter and which emanates equally from Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots. There will be a single united Cyprus citizenship, regulated by federal law,” they said in their declaration.
Repeated UN-led peace talks have so far failed to reunite Cyprus, which has been divided since the 1974 Turkish invasion.