Turkish invasion of Cyprus

The United Nations said two days of expert-level talks on the possible reunification of Cyprus had ended on Jan. 19, describing them as a success but without disclosing any details.

A working group seeking a solution to the Cyprus conflict under the auspices of the United Nations and with the participation of the three guarantor powers has started its duty in Mont Pelerin in Switzerland on Jan. 18.

Greece is committed to resolving the decades-long division of Cyprus and its prime minister will join talks in Geneva this week if there is a willingness by all sides to agree on security concerns.

The Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders sat down to reunification talks in Geneva on Monday after 18 months of intensive peace talks.

Leaders of ethnically divided Cyprus were to discuss territorial trade-offs on Wednesday, a crucial juncture in peace talks aiming for a long-elusive reunification deal that may be put to a referendum this year.

The ongoing negotiations in Geneva on the Cyprus dispute is about to enter a new stage. According to the President of Cyprus, Nikos Anastasiades, it has been agreed that the two negotiating sides will exchange their ideas on maps today.

The maps tabled showed the legal Cypriot government offering the other side 28.2%, while the Turkish-Cypriot entity are demanding 1% more.

Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu will visit New York on Jan. 5 to meet with Antonio Guterres, who assumed his duties as the United Nations Secretary General on Jan. 1.

Çavuşoğlu's visit to the U.N. comes ahead of the upcoming Cyprus talks in Geneva.

Nicosia insisted on Tuesday that the Republic of Cyprus will not be dissolved to make way for a federation with constituent Greek and Turkish states, and that the multilateral summit in Geneva, slated for January 12, that will seek to seal a reunification deal must include the participation of the permanent members of the UN Security Council to ensure its successful outcome.

The Greek minister of Foreign Affairs Nikos Kotzias provided an in-depth analysis of the latest developments so far regarding the ongoing negotiations about the Cyprus dispute to the representatives of all the political parties.

The Council convened in the light of the upcoming meeting of the participating sides in Geneva on January the 12th.
 

Washington will send a representative to the upcoming Cyprus talks in Geneva, should this be required by the United Nations, a US envoy has said.

Cyprus has described as "unhelpful" recent comments by Turkish-Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci, who insisted it will be impossible to find a settlement to the island's problem if it does not include a rotating presidency between the two states that would comprise a Cypriot federal state.