The UN Secretary-General’s newly-appointed personal envoy for Cyprus, Maria Angela Holguin Cuellar, is expected to arrive this week in New York, where she is to hold a series of meetings with UN officials, it emerged on Monday.

According to the information obtained by the Cyprus News Agency, Cuellar, whose appointment was announced last week by the UN, is to arrive in New York this week where she is to hold meetings with the UNSG’s Special Representative in Cyprus, Colin Stewart, the Assistant Secretary-General for Europe, Central Asia and the Americas, Miroslav Jenca, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, Rosemary DiCarlo, and the Secretary General, Antonio Guterres.

Asked about when she is arriving in Cyprus and if she would also visit the capitals of the three guarantor powers, Athens, Ankara, and London, as well as Brussels for meetings with EU officials, the same sources said that she is to visit Cyprus first to meet the two leaders but the dates were not known yet, while it was too early for regional visits to be decided.

The UN announced last week that the UNSG, Antonio Guterres, appointed Maria Angela Holguin Cuellar of Columbia as his personal envoy for Cyprus, and that her task was to assume a Good Offices role on his behalf to search for common ground on the way forward and advise him on the Cyprus issue.

Commenting after a national council meeting earlier, Government Spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said that Cuellar’s contacts in Cyprus would be intensive and constructive in terms of cultivating an even more positive climate and added that conditions for the resumption of negotiations would be created as soon as possible.

Asked about the planned package of measures to be rolled out for Turkish Cypriots, he said the measures “have been prepared” and “are very specific”.

He said the final list of measures was discussed at Monday’s meeting, and that Christodoulides will announce them “at the appropriate time when he himself will judge that it is the most useful and most constructive to do so”.

Meanwhile, political party leaders expressed their satisfaction with Cuellar’s appointment.