Cyprus Mail 12 February 2025 - by Rebekah Gregoriades
An enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem, involving both the island’s communities as well as all three guarantor powers and the United Nations, will go ahead in the Swiss city of Geneva on March 17 and 18, Greek diplomatic sources said on Tuesday.
Athens and Nicosia will be attending the meeting with the clear position that they will be dismissing any two-state proposal, the sources said.
Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis will be meeting on Wednesday at 11am with UN under-secretary-general for peacebuilding Rosemary DiCarlo.
DiCarlo has been in Cyprus to meet with both President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar.
DiCarlo met Christodoulides on Monday morning, and said after that meeting that discussions had focused on preparations “for the meeting in Geneva next month”.
She added that she had assured Christodoulides of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ “strong commitment … to work with the parties on this issue so that we can move forward”.
On Monday, DiCarlo also met with Tatar, who reaffirmed his stance on the prospect of negotiations, saying that the “sovereign equality and equal international status of the Turkish Cypriot people must be accepted” for there to be “constructive steps to be taken towards a solution”.
The enlarged meeting in March will see both Cyprus’ sides as well as representatives of the island’s three guarantor powers, Greece, Turkey and the United Kingdom, and the UN, convene to discuss the Cyprus problem.
