President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Monday agreed that two new crossing points, south of the village of Louroujina, near Larnaca, and south of the village of Karavostasi, west of Lefka, will open simultaneously, at a tripartite meeting of the pair and United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin.

The agreement was announced by UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus (Unficyp) spokesman Aleem Siddique, who also announced that both leaders will hold a tripartite meeting with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres “in the coming weeks”.

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