Content_paragraphs:  UNFICYP maintained its support for the implementation of the women and 
  
  peace and security agenda throughout the period, using virtual forums owing to the 
  
  COVID-19 pandemic. The challenges of employing virtual means notwithstanding, 
  
  women activists continued to coalesce under a shared goal of women’s participation 
  
  in the peace process and in favour of an urgent resumption of the talks. Several 
  
  women’s organizations issued supportive statements and submitted their demands to 
  
  their leaders, in anticipation of the informal five-plus-one meeting, a positive step in 
  
  promoting women’s perspectives on peace and security for Cyprus. One 
  
  intercommunal women’s group, “Hands across the Divide”, undertook a series of 
  
  outreach meetings with decision makers on both sides of the island and with the 
  
  diplomatic community, so as to further share women’s perspectives in relation to the 
  
  peace process.