Nikos Christodoulides

The tripartite meeting with the U.N. chief will not entertain the idea of a federation, said the top diplomat of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) on Wednesday.

"The secretary-general invited the two leaders to a dinner," Tahsin Ertuğruloğlu told reporters in Washington, D.C. "They will meet at a three-way dinner in New York on Oct. 15."

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will hold informal talks with Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders in New York in October "to have an exchange on the way forward on the Cyprus issue," UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Monday.

The President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou, is visiting Nicosia following an invitation from Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides to attend the celebrations for the 64th anniversary of the declaration of independence of the Republic of Cyprus.

Representative of the UN Secretary-General, Stefan Dzuzarik, responding to a question from the Athens-Macedonian News Agency, confirmed information about a trilateral informal meeting between the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot sides in the presence of the Secretary-General in October in New York.

Turkish Cypriot President Ersin Tatar has announced that he agreed to an informal meeting with the Greek Cypriot leader upon the proposal of the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

While in New York for the 79th U.N. General Assembly last week, Tatar held talks with Guterres and the latter proposed a tripartite informal meeting.

The president of Cyprus on Sunday fired the chief of police, his deputy and the acting director of the country's central prisons complex following the embarrassing escape of a convicted murderer while under guard during an eight-hour pass to visit family.

US entrepreneurs and executives expressed keen interest in pursuing business opportunities in Cyprus during a Wednesday working lunch with President Nikos Christodoulides in New York.

China has officially abolished visa requirements for Cypriot nationals, marking a new chapter in the relationship between the two countries.

The announcement was made during a bilateral meeting between Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.

The United States and France are trying to hammer out an interim accord to halt hostilities between Israel and the Lebanese Hezbollah with a view to opening broader diplomatic talks, Cyprus' President Nikos Christodoulides said on Wednesday.

Cyprus' president said on Wednesday he was ready to immediately resume reunification talks over the ethnically divided island, urging regional rival Turkey to also engage in the effort.