The Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary-General on Cyprus, María Ángela Holguín Cuéllar, will travel to Cyprus over the weekend for her first visit to the island since taking up her mandate earlier this month.
This was announced by the UN Spokesperson at the noon briefing in New York on Friday.
The Spokesperson added that on 30 January, she will meet with the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders, Nikos Christodoulides and Ersin Tatar, respectively.
During her stay, Holguín will also engage with a broad range of interlocutors from local actors to civil society, including women and youth groups, the Spokesperson said.
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. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres appointed María Ángela Holguín Cuéllar of Columbia 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.
Source: Cyprus News Agency