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US President Joe Biden (R) holds a bilateral meeting with Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on Oct. 30, 2024.

The tripartite meeting with the U.N. chief will not entertain the idea of a federation, said the top diplomat of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) on Wednesday.

"The secretary-general invited the two leaders to a dinner," Tahsin Ertuğruloğlu told reporters in Washington, D.C. "They will meet at a three-way dinner in New York on Oct. 15."

Israel has targeted Hezbollah commanders in airstrikes in Beirut amid an escalating conflict with the Iranian-backed Lebanese group.

The IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) announced that Ibrahim Aqil, the head of Hezbollah’s operations group, was killed in an airstrike. They also stated that 10 members of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan unit, who were planning an operation akin to the events of “October 7th” in northern Israel, were also killed.

In their official statement, the IDF said:

A senior U.N. envoy with a special task on reporting about whether there is ground for a new initiative to resolve the decades-old Cyprus problem has held talks with senior Turkish officials in Ankara, including Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan.

Türkiye and Turkish Cypriot forces have carried out their 19th annual joint search and rescue exercise near the Saint Hilarion Castle on the Kyrenia mountain range.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on June 13 said any negotiations for the Cyprus dispute need a two-state solution.

The Turkish foreign minister on Sept. 19 separately met with Turkish Cypriot and Indonesian counterparts in New York on the sidelines of the 76th session of the U.N. General Assembly.

"Ahead of #UNGA76 meetings, consulted as usual w/my brother FM Tahsin Ertuğruloğlu of #TRNC," Minsiter Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on Twitter.

The informal 5+1 Cyprus talks in Geneva are a turning point for northern Cypriots, the foreign minister of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) said on May 12. 

Turkey and Turkish Cyprus will seek to coordinate their positions concerning the future steps to be taken for resolving the Cyprus problem before 5+1 format talks as Ankara urged the United Nations to stop relying on "a tested and exhausted process" that has failed to resolve the Cyprus dispute for "more than 50 years."