The outcome of Wednesday’s meeting of President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar demonstrates their commitment, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.

Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency, he said Guterres “welcomed” the meeting’s outcome, and encouraged both Tatar and Christodoulides to “continue their discussions in Cyprus to further build on this positive momentum and increase confidence”.

Asked whether he had anything to disclose regarding the appointment of a new envoy, he said there is nothing to announce yet.

Christodoulides had said after the meeting that progress had been made on four of the six topics of discussion at Wednesday’s meeting.

Meanwhile, the UN had said the pair had agreed to establish a bicommunal technical committee on youth, to discuss demining, to allow the technical committee on the environment to discuss matters related to the environment, and to task the technical committee on cultural heritage with working on the restoration of cemeteries.

The questions of new crossing points and of the construction of a solar farm in the buffer zone, it is hoped, will be solved at a future meeting, which Tatar said will take place before April 24.

Another enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem involving the UN, Cyprus’ two sides, and its three guarantor powers Greece, Turkey, and the United Kingdom, will take place in July, after the most recent such meeting held last month ended with Guterres saying “meaningful progress” had been achieved.