But Johnson left on Wednesday morning after taking part in preliminary meetings on Cyprus and a working dinner on Tuesday night, a British spokeswoman and U.N. spokesman said. The foreign ministers of the other two guarantor powers, Greece and Turkey, were staying for the summit.
U.N. spokesman Aleem Siddique said on Wednesday: "The U.K. remains represented at the conference and we expect ministerial representation at some point in the proceedings."
Cyprus was split in a Turkish invasion in 1974, triggered by a brief Greek-inspired coup. The negotiations on the long-running conflict are the best chance, but maybe not the last chance, to get an agreement, Eide told reporters on Tuesday.
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