NICOSIA (Reuters) -Leaders of ethnically-split Cyprus will meet on November 20, officials said on Monday, marking their first encounter since the election of a new Turkish Cypriot leader last month.
Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman and Greek Cypriot leader Nikos Christodoulides will meet at the residence of the envoy to the United Nations peacekeeping force on the island. The announcement of the meeting was issued simultaneously by the Greek and Turkish Cypriot sides.
Erhurman, a centre-left moderate, won by a landslide in a presidential election in the breakaway Turkish Cypriot state on October 19, pledging to work to revive stalled U.N. talks on reunifying Cyprus.
(Reporting by Michele Kambas; Editing by Alex Richardson)
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