{"id":141479,"date":"2018-10-26T12:55:25","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T09:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/akinci-and-anastasiades-met-on-26th-october\/"},"modified":"2018-10-26T12:55:25","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T09:55:25","slug":"akinci-and-anastasiades-met-on-26th-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/akinci-and-anastasiades-met-on-26th-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Ak\u0131nc\u0131 and Anastasiades met on 26th October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Mustafa Ak\u0131nc\u0131 and Greek Cypriot leader Nikos Anastasiades met today (26<sup>th<\/sup> October) following a long period of time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The meeting was held at the residence of the UN Secretary General\u2019s Special Representative to Cyprus Elizabeth Spehar in the buffer zone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two leaders have not had any contacts since 7 July 2017 when the 5 party meeting was concluded without reaching a solution in Crans Montana but they did have a meeting on 16 April 2018 at the official residence of Spehar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Ak\u0131nc\u0131 and Greek Cypriot leader Anastasiades have reached an agreement on the opening of Derinya and Apl\u0131\u00e7 gates which will be on 12 November 2018.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the \u2018Joint declaration\u2019 published by UNFICYP it is recorded that the leaders exchanged views on the process and in addition they expressed that they are ready to work with the Special Envoy Jane Holl Lute who will come to the island on 31st October in a constructive manner for the future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is also stated in the joint declaration that \u2018the leaders feel happy to announce the opening date of Lefke Apl\u0131\u00e7 and Derinya Gates as 12th November 2018\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Mustafa Ak\u0131nc\u0131 and Greek Cypriot leader Nikos Anastasiades met today (26th October) following a long<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}