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Cyprus Peace Talks

Cyprus' President elect Nikos Christodoulides, left, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar, right, and the U.N. Secretary General's Special Representative in Cyprus Colin Stewart after their meeting at a U.N compound inside the U.N buffer zone in divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023. The new president of Cyprus is meeting with the leader of the breakaway Turkish Cypriots in an informal gathering to test the waters on reviving stalemated talks to end the island's ethnic division that has been a source of instability in the east Mediterranean for decades. (Photo by Danil Shamkin/NurPhoto)