President of the Republic Nikos Christodoulides is attending today’s trilateral meeting with a comprehensive proposal aimed at returning the Cyprus issue to the negotiating table, according to Victor Papadopoulos, Director of the President’s Press Office.
Speaking on Politis Radio, Papadopoulos said the President is approaching the meeting with Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhürman and the UN Secretary General’s Personal Envoy María Ángela Holguín with a clear and complete proposal for restarting negotiations.
Confidence building measures are supportive
Papadopoulos stressed that confidence building measures are supportive in nature and cannot replace the political process itself. Their role, he said, is auxiliary, helping to create conditions that can lead to a broader meeting and a substantive return to talks.
The objective, he added, is a widened format discussion that would allow negotiations to resume from the point where they were interrupted at Crans Montana.
Path back to negotiations
According to Papadopoulos, today’s trilateral meeting is part of a broader effort to demonstrate political will and to move beyond procedural discussions toward a concrete framework that can bring the Cyprus problem back into formal negotiations.
He reiterated that the President’s approach is focused on substance rather than symbolism, with the ultimate aim of reactivating the process under UN auspices and within the agreed framework.