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2nd LD Writethru: Cypriot community leaders to resume reunification negotiations on April 11

Xinhua, April 4, 2017 Adjust font size:

The leaders of the Greek and Turkish communities of Cyprus will resume negotiations on April 11 after a hiatus of almost two months, the United Nations said on Tuesday.

According to a UN statement, the UN secretary-general's special adviser on Cyprus Espen Barth Eide has announced that the resumption of the negotiations will resume following consultations with Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci, and Tuesday's meeting between the UN secretary-general and Akinci in Brussels.

After meeting with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in Brussels, Akinci said he was ready to resume negotiations.

The resumption of talks was announced earlier by Eide by posting the news on his twitter account.

The two leaders had met at dinner on Monday night but after talks which lasted close to five hours, the UN said they did not set a date for the resumption of the talks.

Akinci pulled out of the negotiations on February 16, after the all Greek Cypriot parliament voted to commemorate in schools the anniversary of a 1950 referendum in which Greek Cypriots had expressed their wish for "enosis", or union with Greece.

Anastasiades and Akinci, in negotiations that started in May 2015, managed to achieve unprecedented progress towards reuniting Cyprus. Endit