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It is the first visit to the island by a United Nations Secretary-General in 16 years, and it comes at a moment that could prove decisive.
Not because the positions of the two sides have somehow changed overnight, but because, for the first time since Kranz-Montana, there is a prospect of a new multilateral conference aimed at bringing the negotiating process to a conclusion rather than merely going through it all over again.
It is easy to be swept along by the familiar pessimism surrounding the Cyprus problem.
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It is the first visit to the island by a United Nations Secretary-General in 16 years, and it comes at a moment that could prove decisive.
Not because the positions of the two sides have somehow changed overnight, but because, for the first time since Kranz-Montana, there is a prospect of a new multilateral conference aimed at bringing the negotiating process to a conclusion rather than merely going through it all over again.
It is easy to be swept along by the familiar pessimism surrounding the Cyprus problem.
