Content_paragraphs:  The decrease in intercommunal contacts, compounded by the COVID-19 
  
  restrictions, posed significant challenges to the efforts to build a culture of peace on 
  
  the island and create conditions more favourable to dialogue and mutual trust. My 
  
  mission of good offices, in close cooperation and coordination with UNFICYP, was 
  
  active in promoting activities and contacts among Cypriots across the divide to 
  
  facilitate bicommunal exchanges and activities in areas such as environmental 
  
  peacebuilding and gender. My mission of good offices participated in the selection of 
  
  the 24 young people from across the island who took part in the UNFICYP Youth 
  
  Champions for Environment and Peace initiative and participated in a “buffer zone 
  
  clean-up” campaign held on World Cleanup Day on 19 September (see also S/2021/4).