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The President of the Republic, Mr Nicos Anastasiades, received today at the Presidential Palace, the UN Secretary General Special Representative in Cyprus Mrs Elizabeth Spehar, in the presence of the Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr Nikos Christodoulides and the Government Spokesman Mr Prodromos Prodromou.

After the meeting, Mrs Spehar told reporters that “I have had a good meeting with Mr Anastasiades and with his colleagues. The nature of this discussion was about the dinner, the informal meeting that we will be having on Monday evening. So we are talking about the preparations for that. This follows the meeting that I had with Mr Akinci earlier in the week to do the same thing, also to talk about preparations.

So things are going smoothly so far and I look forward to hosting both of the leaders on Monday evening at my Chief of Mission residence in the buffer zone.

As you know this will be the first time that they sit down with each other and speak in a number of months.”

Replying to a question on what will be discussed at the dinner, Mrs Spehar said that “It is up to the two leaders what they will discuss, there is an open agenda. We will leave it up to them.”

(RM/ΜL/II)