NICOSIA, July 26 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations has indicated it insists on continuing negotiations for the reunification of Cyprus despite a deadlock, it was announced Wednesday.
A statement issued by Espen Barth Eide, the United Nations Secretary General's special adviser on Cyprus, said he will come to the island next week for fresh consultations with the leaders of the Greek and Turkish communities.
The statement said Eide would brief UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on meetings he had with Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci on Monday aimed at reviewing the situation after the impasse during talks in Crans-Montana, Switzerland.
"In the coming days, I'll inform the secretary general of the reflections of both sides to date. I will return to Cyprus next week to continue these consultations," Eide said.
"I listened to the leaders' reflections on the outcome of the talks at Crans-Montana, and also held talks with other key stakeholders, including the diplomatic community, representatives of the EU and the international financial institutions supporting the process," he added.
Eide said he was convinced the best chance for a settlement in Cyprus was through the established United Nations parameters, adding that the two sides are going through a period of reflection.
Eide is currently locked in a war of words with Cypriot government over Turkish position in the negotiations on security arrangements.
Eide insists that based on what Turkish Foreign Minister Cavusoglu told UN officials, Turkey was ready to relinquish its guarantee and intervention rights obtained through the 1960 treaties that led to Cyprus's independence from British colonial rule, but insisted on keeping a number of troops on Cyprus after a solution.
Anastasiades repeatedly denounced that Eide's statement was conveying his own assessments. He said that in Crans-Montana, Cavusoglu was very clear in stating that Turkey would never relinquish both its intervention rights in Cyprus and the stationing of troops on the island.
Anastasiades said he would release later in the day his side's minutes of the closing stage of the conference to "restore the truth".
