Three meetings key to the further development of the Cyprus issue are being held today, and they are expected to determine the possible next steps. Nicosia, Athens and Ankara are engaged in them, BNR reported.
In Nicosia, for the second time within the framework of her week-long mission, the envoy of the UN Secretary General, Maria Ángela Holgin Cuellar, will talk separately with the leaders of the two Cypriot communities - President Nikos Christodoulidis and the leader of the Turkish Cypriots, Ersin Tatar.
The attention of Cyprus is also directed to the meeting today between Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, in which the Cyprus issue will also be raised. It is very important to the efforts being made to restart the negotiations, President Christodoulidis said on Sunday.He stressed that Cyprus “will never negotiate a two-state solution, with the vague terminology of sovereign equality”.
For her part, Ersin Tatar rejected last week the proposal of the UN envoy for a joint tripartite meeting between her and the two leaders, without recognizing the sovereign equality of the Turkish Cypriots. Due to this refusal, Turkish Cypriot opposition parties and unions accused him of sabotaging the UN-sponsored dialogue and called on him to resign.