UN chief’s visit delays Cyprus cabinet reshuffle as DIKO talks continue

The arrival of United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in Cyprus, along with indications from UN headquarters of potentially critical developments on the Cyprus issue, has overshadowed the planned government reshuffle and delayed President Nikos Christodoulides’s timetable.

Sources at the Presidential Palace say Christodoulides has recently focused almost exclusively on the Cyprus issue, preparing for Guterres’s visit and the various scenarios that could emerge from it. He travelled...