Cyprus reunification deal 'on track': UN special envoy

Cyprus reunification deal on track: UN special envoy
Date: 12.1.2017 16:19

The Cyprus reunification deal is on track, UN envoy on Cyprus said on Wednesday on the last day of talks before Thursday's summit over the disputed island in Geneva.

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The Cyprus reunification deal is on track, UN envoy on Cyprus said on Wednesday on the last day of talks before Thursday's summit over the disputed island in Geneva.
 
Speaking at a press conference in Geneva, UN Secretary-General's Special Adviser on Cyprus Espen Barth Eide said: "We are on track. We have dealt some of the most difficult issues...We have solved many of them...There are still work to do.
 
"There are many work to do...We are roughly where we want to be at this stage.”
 
He said that maps had been exchanged between the two sides. "Never before, we have [had an] exchange of maps created by Cypriot delegations themselves," Eide said.
 
About the talks in Geneva on Thursday, he said the Cyprus summit will be at foreign ministerial, not presidential level. 
 
"What's happening tomorrow is historic. Whatever the outcome is [the event is] historic. Because, it is the first time in this process that guarantor powers will actually meet with Cypriots to discuss very difficult issues," he said.
 
"We do not of course believe that it will be over tomorrow," he said.

YEREL HABERLER

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