[CYPRUS MAIL] Foreign minister to meet with UNSG in New York...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos will meet with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, on July 11 in New York, the government spokesman said on Monday.

The minister will go to New York to meet with the UNSG and participate in the two-day annual New York-Eastern Mediterranean Business summit. He will have meetings with other UN officials, as well as contacts with the diaspora and the Jewish lobby and may also meet with US officials.

Spokesman Constantinos Letymbiotis said that the foreign minister will brief the UNSG on all the actions taken so far by Nicosia towards a resumption of talks and discuss possible next steps.

Moreover, Letymbiotis told CNA, in a letter to Guterres, President Nikos Christodoulides elaborated on his proposal for more active involvement of the EU in efforts to break the deadlock and resume peace talks, calling once again for the UN to appoint a special envoy.

As regards the letter that the president has sent to the UNSG, the spokesman said it was a follow-up to what the president had told the UNSG during their recent telephone exchange.

In his letter the president reiterated his readiness to resume negotiations from the point where they were left off in Crans-Montana Letymbiotis said.

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