Wednesday 3 August 2011

The less said publicly the better

The leaders of the two communities in Cyprus, Christofias and Eroglu, yesterday continued their discussion on governance and power-sharing in a five and a half meeting, the third the two have had following a commitment in Geneva early July to intensify talks on the Cyprus problem.

They will be having one more meeting dedicated exclusively to power-sharing and governance on Friday.

UN Special Advisor, Alexander Downer said afterwards that they were aiming to keep the contents of the discussion “as confidential as possible.”

“The less is said publicly about what happens in these discussions, the more chance we have of having a degree of success in the negotiations,” he said.

He added that the two sides should be allowed “to talk around issues without any prejudice to their final position”.

"I think this is a work in progress and it's important it's understood to be a work in progress," he said.

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