Cyprus President Demetris Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu will be meeting today, in the context of UN-led direct talks to solve the Cyprus problem.

This is the leaders` first meeting, following the Geneva meeting with UN Secretary General, on July 7.

Direct talks will be conducted at the residence of the UN Secretary General`s Special Representative in Cyprus Liza Buttenheim, in the UN-protected area of Nicosia airport.

Cyprus was divided when Turkey invaded in 1974. UN led negotiations have been ongoing since 2008 between the leaders of the two communities in Cyprus, in an effort to reunite the island under a federal roof.

President Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Eroglu met with UN SG Ban Ki-moon in Geneva, on July 7th, and according to Ban`s statement after the meeting, they agreed to enter into an intensive period of negotiations on the core issues of the Cyprus problem, with an aim of achieving convergences before meeting again in New York, next October.