Police and military personnel of the UN mission are being appropriately coordinated within Cyprus to intensify efforts to monitor the situation in Varosha, a fenced-off area of Turkey’s occupied Famagusta, the SNA reports.

“We are busy monitoring, surveillance and reporting on everything that is happening there, within our capabilities,” an agency source added, noting that the UN mission is reporting events in Varosha to its New York headquarters.

Recall that the Turkish side opened part of the beach of the abandoned city of Famagusta in early October in violation of numerous UN resolutions.
Varosha, a fenced-off part of the Turkish occupied Famagusta, is often described as a “ghost town” after residents fled from the advancing Turkish army in August 1974.
UN Security Council resolution 550 (1984) considers unacceptable any attempt to populate any part of Varosha with people who are not its residents and calls for the transfer of the territory to the UN. Resolution 789 (1992) also called for the expansion of the territory currently under the control of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus to include Varosha.