The personal envoy of the UN secretary-general, Maria Angela Holguin described Wednesday’s meeting with President Nikos Christodoulides as “constructive”.
“As I said after my first visit to Cyprus, I listen to everyone, from civil society groups to people working in the private sector. I have been in many meetings and my impression is that everyone wants to move forward,” Holguin said after the one and a half hour meeting at the presidential palace.
“I wish leaders would listen to the people I speak to. I will continue my work, as I have done in the previous days with meetings all over Europe, as well as in Moscow and in Washington.
“I hope that leaders will see the support of the international community and do everything to move forward,” Holguin said.
After meeting Christodoulides, she made her way to the north to hold talks with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar.
The next meeting between Holguin and Christodoulides will take place on May 13, a day before her departure from Cyprus.
Following the meeting, government spokesperson Konstantinos Letymbiotis said the content of Holguin’s visits preceding that to the island “was thoroughly discussed and analysed”.
On Monday, she met the Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan in Ankara.
In April, she visited Brussels, meeting European Council president Charles Michel, European cohesion commissioner Elisa Ferreira, and the European Union’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell.
In the wake of Holguin’s last round of talks, Christodoulides expressed hope that there will be developments that allow for optimism about the resumption of negotiations.
In his Easter message, the president reiterated that despite the challenges posed by the Turkish side, his priority is the resumption of substantive negotiations on the basis of the agreed UN framework.
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