"Let us give time to this conference because we have agreed that there will be a technical committee that will start work on the 18th of January," he said.
"We need time. We can't have everything on day one," he cautioned.
Earlier on Friday, the UN Special Adviser on Cyprus, Espen Barth Eide, said that though a number of issues remained to be resolved, talks have yielded much progress.
He also confirmed that technical discussions are to kick off next week, and that these could lead to final negotiations which would take place "soon... maybe even in the course of this month".
Cyprus has been divided in two since 1974 after Turkish troops occupied the northern part of the small Mediterranean island in reaction to a coup by the military rulers of Greece at the time.
While the southern Greek Cypriot side is recognized by the international community and is a member of the European Union, only Turkey officially recognizes the break-away northern region.
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