UN not to withdraw from bids to reunify Cyprus: Envoy

‘The United Nations is “not giving up” on efforts to seal a Cyprus reunification deal despite the failure of an international summit held in Switzerland earlier this month, UN envoy Espen Barth Eide says.
“We were not able to stitch it together to a final deal. That was a blow I think to everybody involved, and the question is what we can do now,” Eide told reporters in Nicosia on Monday.
He said the process was now in “a cooling off phase.”
The Norwegian diplomat returned to the island for his first talks with the rival Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders of the divided eastern Mediterranean island since UN-mediated negotiations collapsed on July 7 in the Swiss resort of Crans-Montana.
“I am here partly to share some of my impressions with the leaders … to hear where they think we stand, where the process is and frankly what they would like us to do,” he said after meeting President Nicos Anastasiades, the Greek Cypriot leader.’
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