Guterres greets Christodoulides as Erdogan avoids meeting
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President Nikos Christodoulides found a warm reception from the UN Secretary-General at the COP31 summit in Antalya, if not from his Turkish hosts. While Antonio Guterres described recent tripartite talks on the island's future as substantial, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reportedly departed the summit shortly before the Cypriot leader arrived. Diplomacy in the region remains a matter of careful timing.
The maritime dispute over the Great Sea Interconnector has moved back to the charts, with the Search and Rescue Coordination Centre issuing an anti-Navtex to counter Turkish seabed surveys. At home, the Auditor General has turned his attention to the Minimum Guaranteed Income scheme, finding that a lack of basic checks allowed years of payments to individuals who had failed to disclose their actual income.
In party politics, Stella Kyriakides has broken her silence to endorse Georgios Pamporidis for the DISY internal elections, stating she could no longer remain a bystander. Separately, a fatal collision on the Evrychou-Astromeritis highway claimed the life of a 64-year-old man after his vehicle was thrown from the road following a severe impact.