U.N. Special Advisor of the Secretary-General Espen Barth Eide, left, and Cyprus’ President Nicos Anastasiades sit during their meeting at the presidential palace in divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Monday, Nov. 28, 2016. Eide meets with the Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders after the talks with rivals’ leaders at Mont Pelerin, Switzerland. (Petros Karadjias/Associated Press)NICOSIA, Cyprus — The United Nations will use shuttle diplomacy to help the rival leaders of ethnically divided Cyprus to come up with ways of getting back to the negotiating table after reunification talks broke down last week, a U.N. envoy said Monday. Envoy Espen Barth Eide, the U.N. secretary-general’s special adviser on Cyprus, said after speaking with Greek Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades and breakaway Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci that resuming negotiations won’t be easy. Anastasiades sought as many as 90,000 Greek Cypriots getting back property in an augmented Greek Cypriot zone.

Source: Washington Post November 28, 2016 16:04 UTC