Eide returns next week

The Special Adviser of the UN Secretary-General on Cyprus Espen Barth Eide will make a brief visit to the island from 13 to 14 January.
According to the UN office in Nicosia, the purpose of the visit is to ascertain directly from the leaders their views on the current impasse in the talks and prospects for its resolution.
The Special Adviser also plans to use the trip to prepare his briefing to the Security Council, scheduled on 26 January.
“In the meantime Eide continues to be in contact with all relevant actors, and in the lead-up to his visit he urges the leaders to remain focused on resuming the talks”, a UN press release says.
President of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades has suspended his participation in the UN-led peace talks following a Navigational Telex or NAVTEX, issued by Turkey in October last year, as Turkish seismic research vessel Barbaros violated the Republic’s exclusive economic zone.
Repeated calls for the withdrawal of Barbaros went unheeded by Ankara, which announced on Tuesday the NAVTEX extension until April 6, 2015. (CNA)

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