The United States’ long standing policy is to achieve a comprehensive settlement in Cyprus, U.S. Ambassador Donald Bandler said in Nicosia Monday, without excluding the possibility of seeing an intermediate arrangement in place as a step towards the final goal.
In addition, Bandler said that Tuesday’s visit to the island by United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan offers the chance to "catalyze some of that political will that is needed to begin getting tangible results", according to the official Cyprus news Agency CNA.
Speaking following an hour-long meeting with President Glafcos Clerides, he said, "we had a fairly long and broad ranging meeting, we touched upon a number of subjects and the Cyprus problem is one of them."
"We are looking forward to the visit of the Secretary General coming up, it is an important visit, an opportunity to forge some progress towards a comprehensive solution that we would like to see," he added. (Albawaba.com)
