On January 26, 2017, the United Nations Security Council issued a resolution regarding the efforts to reunify Cyprus. The resolution welcomed “the progress of the leaders-led negotiations so far and the ongoing efforts of the leaders and their negotiators to reach a comprehensive and durable settlement, and encourage[d] the sides to grasp the current opportunity with determination to secure a comprehensive settlement.” According to the press release, the Council also extended the mandate of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) until July 31, 2017, and “called upon both sides to continue to engage, as a matter of urgency, in consultations with UNFICYP on demarcation of the buffer zone, and on the 1989 aide-memoire with a view to reaching early agreement on outstanding issues.”