Discussions between Cyprus’ two sides are underway to organise a new meeting between President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman, with the aim of bringing about the conditions suitable for an enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem to be held later this year, the Cyprus Mail has learned. Presidential press office director Victor Papadopoulos told the Cyprus Mail that the Greek Cypriot side has requested a leaders’ meeting within the month of August, and is now awaiting a response from the Turkish Cypriot side. Sources close to Erhurman offered a somewhat different version of events, but told the Cyprus Mail that “as a result of our suggestion at the meeting with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that the leaders meet weekly, both sides are now working with each other to organise a new leaders’ meeting”. That meeting, also referred to as a “five-plus-one” meeting, will involve the island’s two sides, its three guarantor powers, Greece, Turkey and the United Kingdom, and the UN. At the time, Waldheim described the leaders’ agreement to hold weekly meetings as “a limited step” but acknowledged it as “a very encouraging sign for the future”.