United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday announced plans for a new enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem to be convened, “after adequate progress” is achieved on the matters of confidence-building measures, the meeting’s methodology, and the substance of the talks.

Speaking after a tripartite meeting with President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman, he did not set a deadline for such a meeting to be held, but said that there is a “consensus” among both sides and the island’s three guarantor powers, Greece, Turkey, and the United Kingdom, for such a meeting to be held.

He also stressed that the UN does not wish for “another enlarged meeting to end without result”, before reiterating his insistence that there be “adequate preparation” made in advance of such a meeting.

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