United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin is to arrive in Cyprus on Friday evening and will remain on the island for a week, marking the start of her second stint in the role.

She will meet President Nikos Christodoulides on Saturday morning, before meeting Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Monday.

In addition, the Cyprus News Agency reported that Holguin will meet the newly formed bicommunal technical committee on youth during her stay on the island.

After leaving Cyprus, Holguin is expected to travel to Greece, Turkey, and the United Kingdom for further contacts.

Holguin spent a six-month stint as envoy in Cyprus last year, and wrote in an open letter to the island’s people at the end of her first term that “too many years have been spent in confrontation; too much time blaming the other side.”

“The status quo has created greater distance and lack of knowledge of the other, and this grows with each passing day. As a mechanism to avoid further frustration, without a doubt linked to the failed negotiation attempts, many people seem to have surrendered to the impossibility of changing the current situation,” she wrote.

She said her visits to Cyprus last year had shown her that “commemorations and monuments remind us not of the glory but the failure of efforts to reach an agreement on the island.”

“It reveals a Cyprus frozen in time. This is exactly what we have the opportunity to change now.”

Her relationship with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar had seemed to sour towards the end of her six-month stint as envoy last year, with their final meeting in May last year lasting just 20 minutes.

Tatar later criticised Holguin’s modus operandi while in Cyprus, accusing her of “provoking the opposition and turning me into a target”.

“Her holding of meetings with some opposition groups is outside her job description. This is not a nice thing. She visited Akinci twice. Is this even possible?” he said.

“This sort of thing is not something that can be accepted diplomatically. She is taking steps to provoke the opposition and wear me down. I conveyed my discomfort to the appropriate authorities.”

Holguin herself had told news website Kibris Postasi she had been “surprised” Tatar had rejected a proposal of a tripartite meeting with herself and Christodoulides.

Her second stint on the island comes between two enlarged meetings on the Cyprus problem involving Cyprus’ two major communities and its three guarantor powers, the first of which took place in Geneva in March.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced at the end of March’s meeting that he would appoint a new envoy, having spoken of “meaningful progress” achieved and talks having been conducted in a “new atmosphere” with a “sense of urgency” demonstrated by all sides.

The next enlarged meeting is set to take place in July.