Our View: UN chief initiates countdown for enlarged meeting

In the end there were no great surprises from the visit by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to Cyprus. He neither announced a date for a new 5+1 conference, nor anything to suggest the Cyprus process would be moving in a different direction.

Yet, the visit was important for a number of reasons, not only because it was the first visit by a UN chief in 16 years, but because it showed the UN was ready to make a serious last-ditch effort during Guterres’ term, which ends in December....