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During yesterday’s (26.4.22) press briefing at UN Headquarters, the Deputy Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General, Mr Farhan Haq, replied to a question set by the ikypros correspondent in New York, Mr Nicos Antoniades, on the meeting of the UN Secretary-General, Mr Antonio Guterres, with President Erdogan.

“Question: Hi, Farhan. Thank you so much. My question is regarding the Secretary‑General visit to Turkey. Yesterday, the Secretary‑General visited Turkey, an invader to Cyprus since 1974 with 200,000 refugees, in order to discuss about another invader, Russia.  

Did the Secretary‑General discuss this to bring it to President [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan's attention during their meeting? Because here we are talking about two invaders, and he visited an invader yesterday. How would you respond to that? 

Did he talk about Cyprus and the invasion there? 

Spokesman: We provided a detailed readout of the Secretary‑General's meeting with President Erdogan, and I would just refer you to the details of that readout.  

Regarding our position on Cyprus, that's well known, and as you know, we continue to work with the parties, trying to have a resolution of the situation in Cyprus. That is as much as I would have to say on that”. 

(MG/ΕCHR)