Permanent Secretary of the Cypriot Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Nicos Emiliou and member of the Cyprus negotiating team, Toumazos Tselepis, will arrive in New York Tuesday for talks with the team of experts appointed by the UN to help the two sides in the peace talks on the property issue.

According to diplomatic sources, the two Cypriot officials will meet a different team of experts during this visit and that discussions will centre on the legal aspects of the property issue, such as setting up of a committee for compensation.

The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will also meet UN Under-Secretary-General Lynn Pascoe and the five permanent members of the Security Council to discuss the latest developments on the Cyprus issue, in view of the 7th July Geneva meeting of Secretary General Ban Ki-moon with President of the Republic Demetris Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu.

The aim of the SG and his associates, as was repeatedly stated in public, is for the Geneva meeting to result with an action plan to overcome the differences that remain