Guterres in Cyprus to revive settlement talks, nine years after Crans-Montana

UN Secretary-General António Guterres met the Republic's president Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhürman separately on Tuesday, crossing the UN buffer zone in Nicosia between the two meetings. It is the first visit by a UN chief to the island since Ban Ki-moon in 2010, and it follows the collapse of the last negotiating round at Crans-Montana in July 2017. Christodoulides wants talks to resume where they stopped, within the bizonal, bicommunal federation model, while Erhürman insists on agreement in advance about Turkish Cypriot political equality and about the rules of the process.

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