Content_paragraphs:  In the weeks prior to the outbreak of COVID-19 in Cyprus, two notable reports 
  
  were issued: the Delivering the Cyprus Peace Dividend report published by the 
  
  Cyprus Centre of the Peace Research Institute Oslo on 5 February; and the gender-
  
  sensitive socioeconomic impact assessment mentioned above. Several discussions 
  
  were held on the economic limitations of the status quo and the concrete financial and 
  
  https://undocs.org/en/S/RES/2453(2019)
  
  
  S/2020/685 
   
  
   
  
  20-08992 10/27 
  
   
  
  other gains that both communities could reap following a settlement in Cyprus. While 
  
  economists in Cyprus have indicated that studies on the impact of a settlement may 
  
  need to be requantified owing to the inevitable impact of the pandemic on the 
  
  economy island-wide, it is nonetheless clear from the substantial work conducted on 
  
  this issue that a resolution to the Cyprus problem would continue to present 
  
  significant economic opportunities, which might now be needed more than ever.