Two sides ‘will meet on monthly basis’

MONTHLY meetings under United Nations auspices will be held between the Greek and Turkish Cypriot sides in the search for a Cyprus solution, President Glafcos Clerides has reportedly said.

CyBC television news yesterday quoted Clerides as saying during a TV interview that after February’s presidential elections the meetings will be held in Geneva.

CyBC said the decision had been taken after a UN meeting on Cyprus held in New York last Tuesday.

The station says its correspondent in New York confirmed the report with a UN source there.

President Clerides in his campaign for re-election has laid heavy emphasis on a US initiative on Cyprus, and on high-level visits from abroad, should he win a second term.

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