Next leaders’ meeting to be organised ‘in near future’

The next meeting of Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman and President Nikos Christodoulides will be organised “in the near future”, according to reports on Wednesday.

According to the Cyprus News Agency, Erhurman’s undersecretary Mehmet Dana and Greek Cypriot chief negotiator Menelaos Menelaou met on Wednesday and held an “exchange of views … in the context of preparations for the next leaders’ meeting”.

“More specific information” regarding the scheduling of that meeting will be available “in the near future”, it said.

The pair most recently met on April 6, with the United Nations having said that they had “exchanged views on substance and on the way forward”, while also having “welcomed [UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’] sustained commitment and engagement on the Cyprus issue”.

It added that they will meet again before the end of the month.

Christodoulides, meanwhile, had said that he and Erhurman had “exchanged some views on confidence-building measures, on all that has been heard from time to time”.

Erhurman made no statement about the meeting, having found himself at the centre of Turkish Cypriot domestic politics at the time, mediating between the ruling coalition and trade unions over the matter of payments of the cost-of-living allowance to public sector workers.