Erhürman and Christodoulides to jointly attend Pile festival

Turkish Cypriot President Tufan Erhürman and Greek Cypriot leader Nikos Christodoulides agreed to jointly attend a festival in Pile on Saturday, following a meeting in the buffer zone held under United Nations auspices. According to a written UN statement, the talks took place in a positive atmosphere, and the leaders also agreed to meet again next week.

The one-on-one meeting took place at the UN Good Offices Mission office, starting at 15:50 and ending at 17:10. The leaders also agreed to jointly attend upcoming meetings of the Cultural Heritage Technical Committee, the Youth Technical Committee and the Steering Committee of the Civil Society Advisory Unit, the UN said.

Before the meeting, Erhürman said the agenda included seven confidence-building measures proposed by Guterres, and that the Turkish Cypriot side had already accepted six of the seven. "We are going into the meeting aiming to hold a result-oriented discussion," he said. Erhürman and Christodoulides are also awaiting the upcoming visit of Maria Angela Holguin, the UN Secretary-General's Personal Envoy on Cyprus.