Anastasiades and Eroglu agree to continue screening process

Posted on March 31, 2014
Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu, have agreed to continue the screening process and to conclude it as soon as possible, with a view to entering into the next stage of the talks, Acting Special Adviser to UNSG on Cyprus Lisa Buttenheim has said.

She was reading a joint statement, in the presence of the two leaders after they met at the UN protected area of the Nicosia airport.

The leaders, she said, met “in a friendly atmosphere and reviewed the progress of the discussions undertaken thus far between the negotiators”.

“They agreed to continue the screening process and to conclude this phase as soon as possible with a view to entering into the next stage of the structured negotiations”, she added.

The leaders, Buttenheim concluded, “agreed to meet again in a month’s time or earlier if necessary”.

Cyprus was divided in 1974 when Turkey invaded the island and occupied its northern third. UN-backed talks resumed in February this year, following an agreed Joint Declaration between President Anastasiades and Dervis Eroglu.

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