Our View: The puzzle of UN envoy’s failed mission to restart talks

The UN secretary-general’s personal envoy, Maria Angela Holguin, left Cyprus after meeting the leaders on Monday, with nothing to show for her efforts. Monday’s meeting with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar lasted less than 15 minutes and Holguin expressed her surprise at his publicly stated rejection of her proposal for a meeting with her and President Nikos Christodoulides.

“Our aim should have been to give diplomacy a chance,” Holguin told Kathimerini. Tatar meanwhile insisted the...