United Nations envoy in Cyprus Maria Angela Holguin told Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis of a “failure to achieve the expected progress” on some issues related to the Cyprus problem, according to reports on Friday.

The Cyprus News Agency reported that she had said there had been some progress achieved on other issues, and that Gerapetritis had in turn “reiterated Athens’ commitment to the agreed framework for a solution”.

Such a solution would entail a bizonal, bicommunal, federal Cyprus.

He also reportedly stressed the “need for a substantive discussion” at the next enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem, which is set to take place in New York in July, with it currently planned that the meeting take place in the last ten days of that month.

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Gerapetritis had also held a telephone call with Cypriot Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos to inform him of the matters discussed with Holguin, as well as progress on other issues, including the status of St Catherine’s monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai in Egypt.

Holguin had met Gerapetritis in Athens on Thursday morning, with no public statements made by either party thereafter.

Thursday’s meeting followed on from Holguin’s meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan in Ankara on Monday, with no public statements also being made after that meeting.

She is also due to visit London and Brussels and had said last week that she plans to return to Cyprus before July’s enlarged meeting.

Upon her departure from Cyprus on Saturday, she had said that both Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar and President Nikos Christodoulides “expressed willingness to make progress” towards achieving and implementing the confidence-building measures agreed upon at March’s enlarged meeting.

“I believe that by building genuine trust, we can pave the way for a positive outcome from the informal broader meeting in July,” she said.

Of her own role going forward, she said that “I am here to offer support, to promote dialogue, and to bring everyone closer together, as the leaders seek to fulfil their commitments as outlined in the outcomes of the Geneva meeting”.

“I reiterate my resolve to respectfully carry out this duty … to move forward towards next steps in a spirit of compromise,” she added.

She had met Christodoulides last Friday, with government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis after that meeting saying that a tripartite meeting with Holguin and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar “would be beneficial and very useful”, though Tatar twice ruled out meeting Christodoulides in light of the circumstances surrounding property.

Tatar had said after his meeting with Holguin last week that it is “not possible to talk about a healthy dialogue” between Cyprus’ two sides in light of the circumstances surrounding the matter of property.

He described the arrests as “a policy of political pressure and intimidation targeting our people through real estate on the part of the Greek Cypriot leadership” and said it has “nothing to do with the law”.

He then added that his reasons for rejecting the idea of a tripartite meeting were “very clear and principled”.

Two Hungarian nationals were handed prison sentences over the matter last month, with the pair having admitted to promoting and advertising the sale of houses near Kyrenia on the internet.

Meanwhile, the case of a German national who reportedly spoke about selling property in the north to an off-duty police officer during a flight to Larnaca is ongoing, and arrest warrants have been issued for four Turkish nationals in connection with developments in the Famagusta district village of Lefkoniko.