U.N. chief urges "be creative" as Cyprus talks open


  • World
  • Tuesday, 27 Apr 2021

A Greek Cypriot guard post is seen next to the UN-controlled buffer zone in Nicosia, Cyprus, April 27, 2021. REUTERS/Yiannis Kourtoglou

GENEVA (Reuters) - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged Turkish and Greek Cypriot parties to "be creative" on Tuesday, hours before informal talks were set to begin on the island's future after a four-year hiatus.

Guterres has invited officials of the two communities in Cyprus as well as the foreign ministers of Turkey, Greece and Britain to attend the Geneva-based talks this week in an effort to resume peace negotiations that collapsed in mid-2017.

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