Our View: One leader playing up UN dinner while the other is playing it down

The dinner date with the UN secretary-general has been set. President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar will be having a trilateral dinner in New York with Antonio Guterres on October 15, as any other type of meeting had been vetoed by Tatar. Attempts to set up a meeting of the three in August, without dinner being offered, was rejected by Tatar for the same reasons that are no longer an obstacle.

Disagreements emerged from the moment the date had been set.