Four key takeaways from Guterres’s first round of separate talks in Cyprus

The first round of contacts by the UN Secretary-General in Cyprus may have concluded without any announcement so far, with one expected tomorrow, but it carried messages both for Cyprus and beyond.

As a first takeaway, four points stand out from António Guterres’s public statements: his reference to the people of Cyprus, rather than the two communities; his statement that a solution to the Cyprus problem depends on the Cypriots themselves, while he will help both Greek Cypriots and Turkish...