Cyprus-Forum.com

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The two leaders in Cyprus will continue the Cyprus negotiations process with another meeting this afternoon.
The meeting between President Mehmet Ali Talat and the leader of the Greek Cypriot Administration Demetris Christofias will start at four o’clock.

The talks are still being held under the first chapter- Governance and Power-Sharing- where governance, federal executive, legislation and judiciary have mainly been negotiated.

Speaking to the press at the end of the previous meeting held between the leaders last Thursday, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Advisor on Cyprus Alexander Downer said that the leaders predominantly discussed the judiciary and that good progress was made on the issue.

He added that ‘deadlock-resolving mechanism’ will be discussed at today’s meeting which will take place at the building allocated for the talks in the UN-controlled buffer in Nicosia.

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Earlier it was annouced that talks were going to be about Deadlock-Resolving Mechanism but leaders didn't talk about it .

The two leaders started their discussions with a tete a tete meeting which lasted for one hour.

Then, the Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot delegations continued the discussions.

After the end of meeting the UN Secretary General’s Special Advisor on Cyprus Alexander Downer said that today’s meeting was held in a very positive atmosphere.

He also said that the two leaders discussed the issue of independent institutions under the title of Judiciary such as the Supreme Court and the Auditor General.

Earlier Mr. Downer announced that ‘deadlock-resolving mechanism’ will be discussed at today’s meeting however the two leaders didn’t have any discussion on this during today’s meeting.

Mr. Downer added that the next meeting between the two leaders will be held next Tuesday, on the 25th of November.