UN envoy in divided Cyprus explores prospect of new talks


  • World
  • Tuesday, 30 Jan 2024

UN envoy on Cyprus Maria Angela Holguin Cuellar smiles to the press after a meeting with Cypriot President Nicos Christodoulides at the Presidential Palace in Nicosia, Cyprus January 30, 2024. REUTERS/Yiannis Kourtoglou

NICOSIA (Reuters) - An envoy for U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres started contacts on divided Cyprus on Tuesday, seeking to break years of stalemate in peace talks.

U.N. envoy Maria Angela Holguin, a former Colombian foreign minister, was on her first visit after being appointed envoy on Jan. 5 with a mandate to explore the resumption of negotiations.

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