President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar will meet on April 2, CNA reported on Sunday.

This will be their first meeting after the Geneva informal meeting on Cyprus in a broader format that took place on March 17 and 18.

Christodoulides said on Saturday that the Greek Cypriot side had proposed to the Turkish Cypriot side, via the UN, several dates for arranging this meeting

Sources told CNA that the meeting has been scheduled for April 2, at 9am local time. It is expected to take place at the residence of the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative in Cyprus, Colin Stewart, in the UN-controlled area of Nicosia Airport.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres announced that an informal meeting on Cyprus in a broader format will be held at the end of July, following a similar meeting in Geneva, on March 17-18.

Guterres also announced that he will appoint a new personal envoy on Cyprus to prepare the next steps, while the two sides agreed to proceed with a number of initiatives, involving the opening of crossing points, the creation of a Technical Committee on Youth and other initiatives in the buffer zone and throughout the island.