This will be judged on the outcome alone, nothing less

A visit from the UN Secretary-General is, on its own, a big deal. Especially when you consider that the last head of the organisation to set foot on this island was Ban Ki-moon, back in 2010. But it matters even more when you factor in that nothing of any real substance has happened on the Cyprus problem since 2017, since Guterres’s own push collapsed.

In a file like Cyprus, a visit of this kind carries a triple weight: a) the visit itself, as an event; b) what the Secretary-General is...