President of the Republic Demetris Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu agreed Wednesday on a schedule for their meetings until January, when they will have a new meeting with the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

Speaking after today’s meeting that last an hour, UN Secretary General`s Special Representative in Cyprus Liza Buttenheim said that their next meeting will take place on Monday 28 November.

“The idea is to have, in principle, one leaders’ meeting a week and then there will also be discussions by the UN with the leaders respectively. And this was a formula that was found to be useful by the two at the latest meetings that were held in New York. It will be an intensive phase but we are not calling them ‘all-day’ meetings”, she said.

Asked whether there will also be one meeting a week with a UN representative, the UN officer said that they still have to work out the schedule of the other meetings.

“Today what was agreed by the leaders is their meetings with each other which will take place until January and roughly one a week. In some cases there might be two meetings in one week”, she said.

She also said that on Monday they will discuss the Governance and Power-sharing Chapter.

Speaking at the Presidential Palace, after the meeting, President Christofias said that today’s meeting was a purely procedural meeting. He added that they fixed the dates of the meetings with Eroglu and the UN.

The UNSG suggested the two sides meet again with him in mid January, following another round of intensive negotiations. The aim, he added, is to bridge the gap which divides the two sides on fundamental aspects of the Cyprus problem, something which is difficult bearing in mind the differences, but not impossible.

Cyprus, has been divided since the 1974 Turkish invasion. The latest peace effort to find a negotiated settlement began i