in-cyprus24 Jul 2026

Guterres’s Cyprus visit part of intense political push, UN peacekeeping chief says

UN Secretary-General António Guterres’s visit to Cyprus on July 27-29 for talks with the island’s leaders reflects “very intense political efforts” by Guterres and his Personal Envoy for the Cyprus problem, María Ángela Holguín, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, told the Cyprus News Association (CNA) on Thursday during a press briefing for journalists in Brussels.

Responding to a CNA question, Lacroix said he hoped the visit would move the political...

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