Foreign ministers of Britain, Greece and Turkey met in Geneva on Thursday in an attempt to thrash out a security deal for a reunited Cyprus, a conflict rooted in Britain’s colonial past and Greek and Turkish rivalry.
For the first time in decades, the three countries were to tackle a 1960 treaty which allows intervention in Cyprus, a pretext used by at least one of them to intervene on the island in the past.
The conference is being chaired by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, in his first major involvement in a deep rooted conflict which has been on the UN’s agenda for more than half a century.
European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker was also in attendance.