Cyprus President meets UN representative while Holguin confers with Tatar

The President of the Republic Nikos Christodoulides is set to receive on Monday afternoon at the Presidential Palace the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Cyprus, Colin Stewart, while the UN SG's Personal Envoy on Cyprus María Ángela Holguín Cuéllar will meet also on Monday with Turkish Cypriot leader, Ersin Tatar, in London.

The meeting at the Presidential Palace is scheduled for 16:00 local time. It is part of the Special Representative's regular consultations with both community leaders ahead of his briefing to the UN Security Council later this month in New York. 

Stewart is set to meet with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Tuesday at 16:00.

Tatar is expected to meet the UNSG's personal envoy, María Ángela Holguín Cuéllar, on Monday in London. President Christodoulides met Holguín last week in Brussels.

Cyprus has been divided since 1974, when Turkey invaded and occupied its northern third. Repeated rounds of UN-led peace talks have so far failed to yield results. The latest round of negotiations, in July 2017 at the Swiss resort of Crans-Montana ended inconclusively. Last January, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres appointed María Ángela Holguín Cuéllar of Colombia as his personal envoy for Cyprus, to assume a Good Offices role on his behalf and search for common ground on the way forward in the Cyprus issue.