UN Secretary-General`s Special Adviser on Cyprus, Espen Barth Eide, will update SG Antonio Guterres on developments in Cyprus this week.

According to reports, Guterres will meet with Eide on Friday. He will also meet with members of the Security Council and other parties.

Speaking on Wednesday at the daily briefing, Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General, was asked when Eide would be coming to the UN headquarters and if he is planning a meeting with the Secretary‑General, the President of the Republic of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades and the leader of the Turkish Cypriot community Mustafa Akinci.

Dujarric said he will get a “date soon” about the first meeting. He also said that Eide will be “seeing the Secretary‑General to update him on the situation”.

However he was “not aware of any trilateral meetings scheduled” at the headquarters.

According to diplomatic sources, Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Kornelios Korneliou delivered a letter to the UNSG which includes the recent Turkish provocations against Cyprus` EEZ.

In the letter Nicosia dismisses the positions of Permanent Representative of Turkey to the United Nations Feridun H. Sinirlioğlu who expressed in a letter to the UNSG “grave concern” regarding what he described as “provocative act” by the government of the Republic of Cyprus to grant an offshore hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation licence for Block 6 of the Cyprus EEZ.

President Anastasiades had stated that the Cyprus` energy plans will be implemented according to the agreed time-frame signed between the state and the companies that were licensed in the island`s EEZ.

UN-led peace talks are currently underway to find a negotiated settlement that would reunite Cyprus, divided since the 1974 Turkish invasion.