Erhürman heads to New York for talks with UN chief
Sep 22, 2026 11:05 am
Ibrar Younas
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President Tufan Erhürman will journey to New York on Wednesday, September 23, for a sequence of diplomatic contacts in the course of the opening week of the 81st United Nations Common Meeting.
Mr Erhürman is scheduled to satisfy the UN Secretary-Common’s Private Envoy on Cyprus, María Ángela Holguín Cuéllar, on September 24, earlier than holding talks with UN Secretary-Common António Guterres on September 26.
There’s presently no prospect of a gathering in New York between Mr Erhürman and Greek Cypriot chief Nikos Christodoulides. Neither a trilateral assembly involving the 2 leaders and Mr Guterres nor a wider casual “5+1” gathering is anticipated in the course of the Common Meeting.
Following a sequence of different bilateral contacts, Mr Erhürman is because of return to North Cyprus at 7.55pm on September 27.
In a written assertion issued forward of his departure, the President mentioned this may be his third assembly with Mr Guterres throughout his 11 months in workplace, noting that the UN chief had undertaken a number of initiatives and made essential assessments throughout that interval.
Mr Erhürman recalled that, following his go to to Cyprus, Mr Guterres had expressed a want to convene one other casual 5+1 assembly involving the 2 Cypriot sides, the three guarantor powers and the United Nations. Nevertheless, the Secretary-Common had made clear that significant progress would first be wanted on confidence-building measures, the methodology of a future course of and substantive points.
Among the many confidence-building measures raised by Mr Guterres had been the opening of latest crossing factors, demining, joint mechanisms to deal with pure disasters and irregular migration, the EU citizenship rights of youngsters born to combined marriages, cooperation in sport and the institution of a joint civil society committee.
Mr Erhürman additionally referred to the UN chief’s latest warning that appreciable work remained earlier than one other 5+1 assembly might be convened and that the errors of earlier processes shouldn’t be repeated.
“After so many inconclusive experiences, we don’t help holding a 5+1 assembly merely for the sake of holding one, nor negotiations merely for the sake of negotiating,” Mr Erhürman mentioned.
“We would like a 5+1 assembly whose prospects of manufacturing outcomes have already been secured by means of conferences in Nicosia, adopted by negotiations that can lead us to a settlement in accordance with our individuals’s will for an answer.”
Echoing Mr Guterres’s remarks following the collapse of the Crans-Montana talks in 2017, Mr Erhürman mentioned any renewed course of have to be totally different and should keep away from repeating the errors of the previous.
“In abstract, our method is aligned with that of the Secretary-Common,” he mentioned. “As now we have accomplished till now, we’ll proceed to help his efforts inside this framework in the course of the the rest of his time period.”
