At UN dinner, Cypriot leaders agree to meet again soon

FILE PHOTO: Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar, walk during a visit at the the CMP Anthropological Laboratory in the buffer zone of Nicosia airport, Cyprus July 28, 2023. REUTERS/Yiannis Kourtoglou/File Photo

(Reuters) - Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders met on Tuesday in New York for informal talks hosted by United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and agreed to meet again soon to discuss discuss "the way forward" on stalled reunification talks.

Cyprus was split decades ago in a Turkish invasion after a brief Greek-inspired coup, preceded by years of sporadic violence between Greek and Turkish Cypriots. Reunification talks collapsed in mid-2017 and have been at a stalemate since.