President Christodoulides and Tufan Erhurman to meet in Nicosia buffer zone

President of the Republic of Cyprus Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman are scheduled to hold a private meeting on Friday at 4 p.m. The meeting will take place at the residence of the UN Secretary-General's Special Representative in Cyprus, Colin Stewart (referred to as Hasim Dyan in provided texts), located in the Nicosia airport buffer zone. There will be no media presence at the event. This encounter follows a previous private meeting between the two leaders held on April 6, where they discussed confidence-building measures and committed to further engagement under UN auspices. Negotiators Menelaos Menelaou and Mehmet Dana also met this past Monday to prepare for the discussions. President Christodoulides previously indicated that progress was made regarding specific confidence-building measures, with expectations that concrete announcements may be made during this upcoming meeting. The leaders previously agreed to meet again before the end of April to finalize these details.