7869th Security Council Meeting: Situation in Cyprus

The Security Council extends the mandate of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus until 31 July 2017, adopting resolution 2338 (2017), at 7869th meeting.

• Categories: Meetings & Events / Security Council
• Video Length: 00:02:28
• Production Date: 26 January 2017
• Asset Language: Arabic; Chinese; English; French; Russian; Spanish
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS PEACEKEEPING FORCE IN CYPRUS - UNFICYP
• Subject Topical: CYPRUS QUESTION; PEACEKEEPERS
• Geographic Subject: CYPRUS
• MAMS Id: 1820765
• Parent Id: 1820519

Description

The Security Council extended the mandate of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) until 31 July 2017 today, while encouraging the divided island nation’s leaders to “grasp the current opportunity” of recent progress in negotiations to secure a comprehensive settlement of the dispute between them.

Unanimously adopting resolution 2338 (2017), the Council recalled that resolution 2263 (2016) called upon the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders to put their efforts behind reaching convergences on the core issues, and improving the public atmosphere for negotiations by delivering more harmonized messages.

Urging the implementation of confidence-building measures, the Council called upon both sides to continue to engage, as a matter of urgency, in consultations with UNFICYP on demarcation of the buffer zone, and on the 1989 aide-memoire with a view to reaching early agreement on outstanding issues. It further called on the Turkish Cypriot side and on Turkish forces to restore the military status quo existing in Strovilia before 30 June 2000.

The meeting began at 10:03 a.m. and ended at 10:06 a.m.