Cyprus' Greek Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades, left, Ersin Tatar, leader of the breakaway Turkish Cypriots, right, and Colin Stewart, the new head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission on the ethnically divided island nation, shake hands during their meeting in Ledra Palace abandoned hotel inside the U.N. controlled buffer zone that cuts through the capital Nicosia, on Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2021. The meeting is billed primarily as a social event geared toward breaking the ice between the two leaders in the absence of formal talks that have been at a standstill since the last bid to reach a reunification agreement collapsed in the summer of 2017. (Yiannis Kourtoglou/Pool via AP)