UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has stressed the importance at this juncture for the parties in Cyprus to resume contacts and to begin to think about how to re-engage in the search for a comprehensive settlement of the Cyprus problem.

In his report to the Security Council for the renewal of the mandate of the United Nations Peacekeeping Forces in Cyprus (UNFICYP), which he recommends, due to the absence of a comprehensive settlement, Annan notes that he will that he intends to dispatch the Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Ibrahim Gambari to Cyprus, Greece and Turkey in the near future to assess the political situation in and around Cyprus and the prospects "for a full resumption of my good offices."

Source: Athens News Agency

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