Leaders hold talk on Cyprus reunification

The leaders of Cyprus’s rival Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities were meeting today to try to clear up disagreements which have strained attempts to reunify the ethnically divided island.

Cyprus President Dimitris Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat agreed in March to restart long-stalled reunification talks. Mr Christofias’s election in February, replacing a hard-liner, rekindled hopes that the decades-old division of Cyprus could finally be resolved.