On January 26, 2017, the United Nations Security Council issued a resolution [3] 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 [4], 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.”