They pledged to work together and with relevant national authorities to ensure that the recommendations of the UnitedNationsPlan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity were applied at country level.
Leaders of the Greek and Turkish communities on the Mediterranean island, which has been divided since Turkey invaded in 1974, have been conferring intensively, but so far fruitlessly, on a UnitedNationsplan to reunite the island as a loose federation.
Despite his initial support for the UnitedNationsplan to re-unify the island, Mr Erdogan has backed away from it, under pressure from the generals, who still see Cyprus as a military asset and, whatever their other reverses, still have a strong hold on policy.