Our View: Another round in the Cyprus talks parody

July has arrived and in three days the second, so-called ‘informal five plus one’ conference under the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will be held in New York. The venue is the only thing that has changed since the last such gathering in March in Geneva. The July gathering was to have been held in Switzerland as well, but spending cuts at the UN forced the change of plan, a meeting at the New York HQ a more economical choice. Why would the UN waste more funds on a sterile process that is going nowhere and has degenerated into parody?