The People's Republic of China will continue to work along with Cyprus and with other members at the UN Security Council in support of efforts to solve the Cyprus problem, Ambassador Liu Xinsheng said on Thursday.
"We are very pleased about the developments over the past few months and we support the momentum...China, as a member of the UN Security Council will continue to contribute towards this," said the ambassador after a meeting with the speaker of Cyprus's House of Representatives, Yiannakis Omirou.
President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci agreed at a meeting on Wednesday to enter into substantive negotiations for the reunification of Cyprus at their next meeting on June 29.
Asked by reporters to comment on the issue of guarantees which was raised by Omirou at the meeting, Ambassador Liu Xinsheng said Cyprus is a member of the UN and the EU.
"So, we strongly believe that the UN and EU can play a very important role in this matter," he said.
The system of guarantees was set up when Britain granted independence to Cyprus in 1960, after a four-year guerilla war.
Britain, Turkey and Greece became guarantor powers of the independence and territorial integrity of Cyprus under a Treaty of Establishment ending British colonial rule.
