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20 January, 2017Akıncı: “The choice of the Turkish Cypriot people regarding security should be respected”
20 January, 2017The UN Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Cyprus Espen Barth Eide has said that the second five-party conference on Cyprus concluded yesterday after two days of discussion.
Eide stated that security and guarantees were discussed at the five-party conference which took place in Mont Pèlerin, Switzerland, as part of the Cyprus talks. The conference has been taking place at the deputy and expert level.
During the two day meeting, a Turkish Cypriot working group led by Chief Negotiator Özdil Nami conducted a study with the Greek Cypriot working group that recorded the parties’ positions regarding security and guarantees.
In his statement, Eide also stated that the working group, established during the high-level meeting in Geneva on 12 January, successfully completed the mandate entrusted to it by the conference: identifying specific questions related to the issue of security and guarantees and the instruments needed to address them.
Eide stated that while the participants agreed not to disclose details about their discussions as not all of the conference proceedings have concluded, the meetings were conducted in a positive spirit.
President Mustafa Akıncı and the Greek Cypriot Leader Nikos Anastasiades are expected to meet on 26 January 2017 in the buffer zone to evaluate the latest developments in the negotiations.
(BRTK)