Tuesday’s meeting between the leaders of the two communities in Cyprus in the framework of the ongoing UN led talks focused on EU, the economy and internal security issues, UN Secretary General’s Special Adviser on Cyprus Alexander Downer has said.

In a short statement to the press after a five hour long meeting, Downer noted that “it has been a pretty productive meeting”, adding that “they will meet again on Friday and the meetings after that next week are on Wednesday and the following Friday”.

“We are looking forward to continuing this constructive process”, he said.

Replying to a question on whether there has been any ‘give and take’ in the talks Downer stressed that “we try to avoid getting ourselves bogged down in semantic debates”, adding that “a peace process can be overwhelmed with debate about semantics, about words and phrases and the meanings of words and phrases”.