Meeting at UN will aim to help Cyprus peace talks

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A meeting at U.N. headquarters next week will try to achieve a breakthrough in flagging talks to reunify ethnically split Cyprus, the island's president said on Monday.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is hosting the meeting Nov. 18 in New York with President Dimitris Christofias, a Greek Cypriot, and Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu.

Christofias said the goal is to "break the possible deadlocks and to open the road toward a comprehensive solution." He warned against any outside pressure to impose arbitration or deadlines in the open-ended process.

"I don't intend to go to New York to confirm that there is an impasse and period, there is no …