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AA (5 January 2025)

Şerife Çetin

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said it is important to take "a critical look at the way forward" in addressing the Cyprus(*) issue.

"It is also important, at this stage and after the findings of my Personal Envoy, to have a critical look at the way forward through an informal broader meeting with the two sides and the guarantor powers," Guterres said in a report on his mission of Good Offices in Cyprus, obtained by Anadolu. "I call upon all relevant stakeholders to earnestly consider how to ensure that this next engagement, which has raised hope among Cypriots that a mutually acceptable way forward is still possible, is open and constructive," he said.

The report covers developments from June 13 to Dec. 11, 2024, and officially notes that the term of office of UN Secretary-General's Personal Envoy on Cyprus Maria Angela Holguin Cuellar concluded in July 2024. The report said despite the efforts by Cuellar, "no common ground had been found" between the leaders of Turkish Republic of North Cyprus (TRNC) and Greek Cypriot Administration on the way forward on the Cyprus issue.

(*) AVİM uses "Cyprus" as a geographic name. AVİM considers the expression "Republic of Cyprus" to mean the Greek Cypriot Administration of Southern Cyprus.

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