Dervis Eroglu

Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish-Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu will meet on Thursday in the context of ongoing negotiations to reunify the Mediterranean island.

Talks will be attended by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s special adviser Espen Barth Eide.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has called for a two-state solution to the Cyprus problem.

Speaking during a visit to the Turkish-occupied part of the Mediterranean island, the new premier repeated the call made by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's newly-elected President, early September. Erdogan's comments had irked officials in Athens and Nicosia.

The newly appointed United Nations special adviser on Cyprus, Espen Barth Eide (photo), will hold a joint meeting with Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish-Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu in Nicosia on September 17.

Eide revealed that the meeting would take place after holding separate talks with the two men on Friday.

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, in Wales for a two-day NATO summit, was expected to meet with Turkey's new President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sildelines of the event Friday.

Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades is due in Athens on Monday to discuss the ongoing reunification talks on the island with Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos.

Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish-Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu are to meet in Nicosia on Monday for the first time since US Vice President Joe Biden visited the island.

US Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday said Cyprus has the potential to become a “key player” in the Eastern Mediterranean and expressed Washington’s support for a resolution to new peace talks on the divided island.

US Vice President Joe Biden gives a statement to the media in front of Air Force Two, after he arrives in Larnaca international airport, Cyprus, on Wednesday.

US Vice President Joe Biden flew in to Cyprus on Wednesday for talks on the divided island’s peace process and on Western sanctions against Russia over Ukraine.