Leaders go walkabout
Greek Cypriot leader Demetris Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat suprised their colleagues, the media and UN officials early this afternoon as they left the conference room where the Cyprus peace talks are being held inside the UN compound and took a walk around the area. The two had emerged from their traditional one-on-one meeting to find their colleagues — experts on specific issues of the Cyprus problem — hard at work, so they decided to leave them to it for a while. It’s not known what the leaders discussed during their 15-minute walkabout, but the beautiful spring weather could not but give them a boost as they went back indoors to wrap up a discussion on issues related to how the European Union would operate in a future united Cyprus.
