Mehmet Ali Talat and Dimitris Christofias, the respective Turkish and Greek Cypriot leaders, have held a series of meetings in a bid to reach an agreement on reunification for the divided island.
Analysts say that Cyprus is the closest it has ever been to reaching a settlement.
Al Jazeera spoke to two Cypriots, one Greek and one Turkish, to see how close they felt their leaders were to reaching an agreement.
