ATHENS (Reuters) – Cyprus wants more direct involvement of the European Union in attempts to end the decades-old division of the island, its president Nikos Christodoulides said on Thursday.
“In the current geopolitical environment, following the Russian invasion in Ukraine, the European Union can – and must – contribute decisively in the restart of talks, always within the United Nations framework,” Christodoulides said after meeting German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin.
Cyprus was split in a Turkish invasion in 1974 triggered by a brief coup engineered by the military then ruling Greece. Its division is a source of friction between NATO allies Greece and Turkey.
(Reporting by Renee Maltezou and Angeliki Koutantou; Writing by Michele Kambas; Editing by Alex Richardson)
