Appointment of UNSG personal envoy a matter of days

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The appointment of a UN Secretary-General personal envoy on the Cyprus issue is a matter of days, Government Spokesperson, Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Thursday.

In statements to journalists at the Presidential Palace, after a meeting of the Cabinet and, asked about the issue of the appointment of a personal envoy of the UN Secretary-General on the Cyprus issue, the Spokesperson said that based on information from the UN, “the official announcement is imminent”.

It is a matter of days, he added, noting that it was a matter of UN procedures and that there was no other issue in relation to the announcement of the appointment.

UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, announced in March right after the end of the informal meeting on Cyprus in a broader format held in Geneva, that the two leaders, namely Cyprus President, Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader, Ersin Tatar, agreed for another meeting in the same format to take place at the end of July and that he would appoint a personal envoy to prepare the next steps.

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Source: CNA

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