Cyprus talks shift to territorial and map trade offs

Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci arrives for the Cyprus reunification talks at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland January 11, 2017. REUTERS/Pierre Albouy

GENEVA (Reuters) - 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.

For the first time in more than a decade, Greek and Turkish Cypriots plan to submit maps to the United Nations detailing their proposals on territorial boundaries between constituent states in a two-zone federation.