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Special Advisor of the UN Secretary-General on Cyprus, Alexander Downer, said that negotiations have "picked up momentum again" after they had been slowed down on the property issue. The political leaders of Southern and Northern Cyprus will meet again soon.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met with leaders of Northern and Southern Cyprus to support negotiations for a "united Cyprus". Ban: "A mutually beneficial solution requires courage, flexibility, a vision and the spirit of reconciliation".

As it has been decided to remove the buffer zone in Nicosia, a UN team has found no land mines or unexploded ammunition in the area.