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Guterres meets with both sides in push to re-unify Cyprus

The UN Secretary-General reaffirmed his commitment to supporting renewed negotiations after separate meetings with Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhürman.

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00:01United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres used his visit to Nicosia to underline his personal commitment to reviving efforts to
00:10resolve the Cyprus issue.
00:12He held separate meetings with the President of the Republic of Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulidis, and the Turkish Cypriot Leader, Tufaner
00:19Hürman.
00:20Following his meeting with President Christodoulidis, Guterres described the visit as a gesture of solidarity and a sign of his
00:27strong commitment to the effort to find a solution to the Cyprus problem.
00:33It depends obviously on the Cypriots themselves, also to guarantee us the role to play, but then I will do
00:44everything I can to support
00:48the Greek Cypriots and the Turkish Cypriots in this very important moment.
00:56The Garantor powers are Greece, Turkey and the United Kingdom under the agreements that established the Republic of Cyprus in
01:041960.
01:05The island has remained divided for more than 50 years, while the last major effort to reach a comprehensive settlement
01:12collapsed in 2017.
01:14At the start of his meeting with President Christodoulidis, Guterres said, resolving the Cyprus issue was important at a time
01:22of regional instability and wider geopolitical shifts
01:25which could play Cyprus at the center of unwelcome developments.
01:31Christodoulidis said Cyprus and the wider region needed good news and called for the Secretary General's continued political support.
01:39It's an enormous place.
01:40It's an enormous place.
01:41It's an enormous place.
01:41This political political policy must be addressed, as far as the Cyprus and from the Cyprus, but from the強調.
01:46It is, indeed, indeed, that we must all be able to register together with the national nationality.
01:52We have a specific relationship between the WSF,
02:01with political issues, such as these are on social media,
02:05with the claim of the values, the values and the values of the EU.
02:09This is a solution that will keep the harmony
02:12together with the four basic freedoms of the EU.

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