Our View: Is the president’s Cyprob optimism wishful thinking or diversion?

President Christodoulides, for the last couple of weeks, has been forecasting “some development in the Cyprus issue,” which could materialise in August or early September. He repeated this prediction again at the presidential palace on Monday at a gathering of the heads of Republic’s diplomatic missions.

This has been mentioned publicly on several occasions, although the president failed to say why he thought there would be developments. Was it a hunch, an educated guess or had he actually...