{"id":11997,"date":"2024-05-16T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T06:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=11997"},"modified":"2024-05-16T09:00:52","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T06:00:52","slug":"our-view-the-puzzle-of-un-envoy-s-failed-mission-to-restart-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=11997","title":{"rendered":"Our View: The puzzle of UN envoy, \u2019s failed mission to restart talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/our-view-the-puzzle-of-un-envoy-s-failed-mission-to-restart-talks.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>The UN secretary-general\u2019s personal envoy, Maria Angela Holguin, left Cyprus after meeting the leaders on Monday, with nothing to show for her efforts. Monday\u2019s meeting with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar lasted less than 15 minutes and Holguin expressed her surprise at his publicly stated rejection of her proposal for a meeting with her and President Nikos Christodoulides.<\/p>\n<div class=\"cypru-video-ads\" id=\"cypru-815498796\">\n<div id=\"cypru-840580354\" data-cypru-trackid=\"478051\" data-cypru-trackbid=\"1\" class=\"cypru-target\">\n<div id=\"gpt-ad-5275828565381-0\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cOur aim should have been to give diplomacy a chance,\u201d Holguin told Kathimerini. Tatar meanwhile insisted the Turkish Cypriot side will not budge from its position on sovereign equality and equal international status, while accusing Holguin of \u201cviolating her terms of reference\u201d. Having established there was no common ground for the resumption of talks, Holguin was now going beyond her brief, he said, suggesting her mission was over.<br \/>\nHolguin will now prepare a report about her mission to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who will presumably decide the next steps. What next step there can be when she cannot persuade Tatar to agree to a meeting with Christodoulides is open to question. The possibility that Guterres would call an end to the search for common ground before the expiry of the six months of her mission cannot be ruled out.<br \/>\nIf the purpose of this latest failed initiative was for Christodoulides to win the blame game and shelve the Cyprus problem for the rest of his presidency, then he has succeeded. Tatar\u2019s refusal to even agree to a meeting was emphatic proof that a biggest share of the blame for the continuation of the deadlock belongs to him and Turkey which backed him. But had Christodoulides gone to all the trouble to persuade Guterres to send a personal envoy just to prove that the Turkish side was to blame for the deadlock?<br \/>\nIt is difficult to say if this was his objective. Perhaps he had hoped there would have been a softening of the Turkish position once the envoy was here. This did not materialise and he was not prepared to show the flexibility \u2013 some could have seen this as making concessions \u2013 that would have broken the deadlock. Holguin pointedly said that Christodoulides had \u201ca very clear picture of what could unlock the process,\u201d implying that he was not prepared to unlock it. In a way she was implicitly blaming the lack of progress on his refusal to unlock the process.<br \/>\nThis is what is puzzling. Christodoulides secured the appointment of a personal envoy, knowing full well that he would have to be creative and flexible to persuade Tatar to agree to a resumption of talks, but once she arrived he did nothing to help her achieve a breakthrough. He was under the illusion that the mere presence of an envoy would somehow persuade Tatar and Turkey to agree to a resumption of talks, without any move being made by him.<br \/>\nWas it a terrible miscalculation or was this what he wanted \u2013 the ability to blame the Turkish side for the continuing deadlock?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN Secretary-General&#8217;s personal envoy, Maria Angela Holguin, left Cyprus after meeting with the leaders, including Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar, with no progress made. Tatar rejected Holguin&#8217;s proposal for a meeting with her and President Nikos Christodoulides, citing the Turkish Cypriot side&#8217;s position on sovereign equality and equal international status. Holguin will report to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who will decide the next steps in the peace talks. Christodoulides&#8217; failure to persuade Tatar to agree to a meeting raises questions about the purpose of the failed initiative and the blame game surrounding the deadlock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[711,4800,10186,1031,1240,2143,3,413,4406,398,2837,264,5922,8903,250,3330,3259,187,3940,1346,10185,9597,3331,193,635,4834,9454,680,1021,4843,503,3840,4671,7559,4620,720,5055,6238,2184,6928,1026,1844,177,268,1161,8704,8172,414,1035,6305],"class_list":["post-11997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other","tag-antonio-guterres","tag-appointment","tag-blame-game","tag-christodoulides","tag-clear","tag-common-ground","tag-cyprus","tag-cyprus-problem","tag-deadlock","tag-diplomacy","tag-equality","tag-ersin-tatar","tag-flexibility","tag-follow","tag-google","tag-google-news","tag-guterres","tag-international","tag-leaders","tag-meeting","tag-meeting-rejection","tag-move","tag-news","tag-nikos-christodoulides","tag-our-view","tag-peace","tag-peace-talks","tag-personal-envoy","tag-presidency","tag-president","tag-president-nikos-christodoulides","tag-progress","tag-proposal","tag-refusal","tag-report","tag-rest","tag-resumption-of-talks","tag-search","tag-secretary-generals-personal-envoy","tag-six","tag-talks","tag-tatar","tag-turkey","tag-turkish-cypriot","tag-turkish-cypriot-leader","tag-turkish-cypriot-leader-ersin-tatar","tag-turkish-cypriot-side","tag-un","tag-un-envoy","tag-who"],"acf":{"keyphrase":"","keywords":"","sourceimg":"","country-category":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Our View: The puzzle of UN envoy, \u2019s failed mission to restart talks<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Our View: The puzzle of UN envoy, \u2019s failed mission to restart talks\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"UN Secretary-General&#039;s personal envoy, Maria Angela Holguin, left Cyprus after meeting with the leaders, including Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar, with no progress made. 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