The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Cyprus, the negotiator of the Greek Cypriot side and the special representative of the Turkish Cypriot leader participated in the discussion that President Anastasiades had with the Turkish Cypriot leader Tatar.
Cyprus' rival leaders remained polar opposites on what is needed for a peace deal on reunifying the ethnically divided island nation as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres continued on Wednesday trying to get dormant negotiations restarted.
Turkish Cypriots to UN: two-state basis best for Cyprus deal
JAMEY KEATEN and MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS, Associated Press
April 28, 2021
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1of3An abandoned Cyprus Airways Trident passenger jet is parked on the tarmac of the long-abandoned Nicosia airport that lies inside a United Nations-controlled buffer zone, that separates the breakaway Turkish speaking north of ethnically divided Cyprus from the internationally recognized Greek speaking south, with a giant Turkish Cypriot breakaway, right, and Turkish flags painted on mountain in the background, in the Turkish occupied area, on Friday, April 4, 2021. United Nations Chief Antonio Guterres is hosting an informal gathering of the rival Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders as well as the foreign ministers of ethnically split Cyprus guarantors - Greece, Turkey and former colonial ruler Britain – aimed at getting the two sides to embark on a fresh round of formal reunification talks, despite