Reuters reports that TRNC Foreign Minister Tahsin Ertuğruloğlu has dismissed the likelihood of progress at the upcoming UN discussions on Cyprus, set for March 17-18.

Speaking ahead of the talks, he pointed to the decades-long failure of federal negotiations and reaffirmed that Turkish Cypriots will not accept anything less than recognition of their sovereign equality.

With no clear common ground, Ertuğruloğlu stressed that the UN must rethink its approach.