Leaders of the divided Cyprus, Nicos Christodoulides and Ersin Tatar, failed to reach an agreement on opening new crossing points within the UN buffer zone, aimed at fostering trust and economic ties.

A meeting between the two leaders in ethnically divided Cyprus has ended without an agreement, with both sides failing to reach a decision on a trust-building deal that included opening new crossing points across a UN-controlled buffer zone.

President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar are to meet on Monday at the residence of UN Secretary General’s Special Representative Colin Stewart to discuss the opening of new crossing points.

United Nations under-secretary-general for peacebuilding Rosemary DiCarlo will meet Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on February 10, Tatar’s office announced on Thursday. DiCarlo’s meeting with Tatar is the first date to be announced of her forthcoming trip to Cyprus,

United Nations Chief of Mission in Cyprus Colin Stewart, center, hosts a meeting between the ethnically divided island nation's Greek Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides, right, and the leader of

President Nikos Christodoulides will have a meeting with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar, and the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Cyprus, Colin Stewart on Monday at the latter's residence in the UN Protected Area at Nicosia Airport.

Turkey on Wednesday again insisted on a two-state peace accord in ethnically divided Cyprus as the United Nations prepares to meet with all sides in early spring in hopes of restarting formal talks to resolve one of the world's most intractable conflicts.

Turkey insists on a two-state solution for Cyprus as renewed UN talks loom, raising tensions between Greek and Turkish Cypriots. The UN and EU advocate for a federation instead. Talks collapsed in 2017 primarily over military presence on the island.

Ersin Tatar claimed that, as UN Secretary-General’s personal envoy Maria Angela Olgin Guayar wrote in her report, “the federation, which died with the No vote of the Greek Cypriots in 2004 and was then buried at the Crans Montana summit in 2017, is no longer a model for a solution acceptable to both parties.”

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. U.N. Secretary General’s Special Representative in Cyprus Colin Stewart, center, Cyprus’ President Nikos ...

The Cyprus problem show is back. Nothing constructive or meaningful will be agreed, but that was never the objective. As has been made evident over the decades, the two sides are more interested in the process rather than in producing tangible results.

An agreement on the opening of new crossing points would be a meaningful signal of political will ahead of any broader format meeting, UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres said in his ..