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Greece’s Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias has accused United Nations Special Adviser on Cyprus Espen Barth Eide of behaving and speaking more like a spokesperson for Turkey, rather than a neutral mediator.

Kotzias made the remarks in response to commentary by Eide to the media regarding the recent failed Cyprus talks in Switzerland.

Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades praised the part played by Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras but also Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias in two separate interviews to Greek newspapers published on Sunday.

Greece’s Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias on Monday laid the blame for the collapse of the Cyprus talks in Crans Montana squarely at Turkey’s door, responding with some plain talk to questions from the Athens-Macedonian News Agency.