Guterres plans Cyprus meeting to define way forward

July 29, 2026 5:07 AM EDT

Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman, meet at a U.N. compound in the Nicosia airport area, inside the United Nations-controlled buffer zone in the divided capi

NICOSIA, July ‌29 (Reuters) - ​United ​Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said ‌on Wednesday he planned ⁠to convene a ‌multi-party meeting on ‌the division of Cyprus to define the ​way forward on resolving a ⁠conflict which has lasted more than ​half a century.

"I decided that I would ​convene another ‌five plus one meeting, after ⁠adequate preparations on confidence building, methodology and ⁠substance," Guterres told journalists ​in Nicosia, Cyprus's divided capital. The meeting would include ‌Greece, Britain and Turkey, which ‌are guarantor powers ⁠of Cyprus's ‌independence.

(Writing ​by Michele Kambas; Editing by Sharon ‌Singleton)



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