Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday met and discussed the Cyprus problem, among other issues, on the sidelines of the UN general assembly in New YorkWhile little detail was offered about the content of the meeting, Guterres’ office stated that he and Erdogan had “exchanged views on Cyprus, the situation in the Middle East, Libya, and Ukraine”. “There are two separate states and two separate peoples on the island of Cyprus. The international community must end the unjust isolation to which the Turkish Cypriots have been subjected for half a century,” he said. As such, he said, “I reiterate the call I made at the last three United Nations general assemblies”. “I invite the international community to recognise the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and to establish diplomatic, political and economic relations.”