The President of Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulidis, expects a more direct involvement of the European Union in efforts to reunify the island state.
He stated this in Berlin after a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
As Christodoulidis noted at the press conference, Cyprus is a member of the European Union, therefore "the Cyprus problem is a European problem and its solution directly affects the European Union."
"In the current geopolitical conditions, after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the European Union can and should make a decisive contribution to the resumption of negotiations, always within the framework of the United Nations," he added.
According to the Cypriot president, the EU has "tools and incentives that can lead to a mutually agreed solution for the Cypriot people, Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, for Turkey, for the European Union."
