The personal envoy of the UN Secretary -General for the Cyprus issue, Maria Achela Olgin Kuyyar, She said today that her goal is to make tangible progress in all confidence building measures agreed in March at the informal expanded meeting in Geneva.
In statements to reporters after her meeting with the Cypriot President Nikos ChristodoulidesMrs. Olgin pointed out that the efforts of the next few days will focus on specific results in view of the next informal expanded meeting for the Cyprus with the participation of the UN Secretary -General, which will take place in July. He noted that the goal is to make progress in all the proposed MIOs, although he acknowledged that the end result would depend on developments.
Asked if the goal is to make progress in all six MOEs, he replied that “this is the reasoning”, adding: “We will see what will happen.”
The UN Secretary -General’s personal envoy expressed its satisfaction that it returned to Cyprus.
“I had my first meeting with President Christodoulides and we agreed that we had to work hard this month in view of the next meeting with the Secretary -General in July, so that there can be results,” he said.
Mrs. Olgin referred to the positive climate of discussions held in March, in which the two parties agreed in order MOG. He also stressed that the Secretary -General continues to boost the Cyprus issue and said he was determined to work intensively to do something tangible until July.
The UN Secretary -General announced that an informal meeting for the Cyprus issue will be held at the end of July. The two sides have agreed to proceed with a series of initiatives, including the opening of new passages, the creation of a youth technical committee and other actions within the dead zone and throughout the island.
Become a joint meeting with Tatar
The Cypriot government spokesman Konstantinos Letibiotishe said that a new meeting of Mrs Olgin with Nikos Christodoulides will be held, while the Cypriot president has transferred his readiness to hold a joint meeting with E. Tatar in the presence of Mrs Olgin. The suggestion will be discussed at the meeting Monday Mrs Olgin with the Turkish Cypriot leader. As Mr Letibiotis said, the UN Secretary -General’s special envoy will make contacts in Ankara, Athens, the United Kingdom and Brussels. Today’s meeting also discussed the very important appointment by the European Union of Mr. Johannes Han As a special envoy to the European Union for the Cyprus issue and how the European Union, especially in the light, in the light of Euro -Turkish interconnection with the Cyprus issue, can assist in the efforts of the United Nations. “
In a journalist’s observation that Mrs Olgin’s statements earlier today concludes that the July multilateral conference will be discussed and asked if we expect to discuss substance issues, the Cypriot spokesman said that “we are not only awaiting, but in this direction.
After all, issues of substance were also discussed today between the President of the Republic and Mrs Olgin. The main mission, the mission of the staff of the United Nations Secretary -General is the preparation of the multilateral conference, so that this multilateral conference is a springboard to the reopening of the negotiations. “