UNSG’s Special Adviser for Cyprus Espen Barth Eide is set to meet with Ban Ki-Moon on Thursday to discuss the way forward as regards the Cyprus talks.
Deputy Spokesman for the Secretary-General Farhan Haq told the press yesterday that Eide is going to be in town over the next couple of days and “he expects to meet with the Secretary-General and they can discuss the way forward.”
Asked whether there is an update about a letter Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu has sent to UNSG, Haq said that “there is not a letter from Dervis Eroglu,“ adding that the letter was submitted by the Permanent Mission of Turkey from Memet Dana “who is described as a representative“.
“That letter has gone to the Secretary-General and it ought to be circulated as a document of the General Assembly under agenda item 42. So it will become a document and you can see it for yourself“, Haq told the press.
Cyprus has been divided since 1974 when Turkey invaded and occupied its northern third.
A NAVTEX (Navigational Telex), a notice to mariners by Turkey, advising that it was reserving areas south of Cyprus – including parts of the country’s EEZ – for seismic surveys, entered early on Monday morning into force, until December 30.
Following Turkey’s provocations, President Anastasiades has recently announced his decision to suspend his participation in the UN-led negotiations which aim to reunify the island under a federal roof.
