Letymbiotis hopes for progress before year’s end, says conditions not yet ripe for negotiations

Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis on Tuesday said that he hopes for serious progress on the Cyprus problem to be achieved before the end of incumbent UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ term in office at the end of this year, but admitted that the conditions for negotiations to restart in earnest have not yet been reached.

“We hope that the entire period until the end of Guterres’ term in office will not be needed for there to be substantial developments on the Cyprus issue, in...