In the light of a renewed interest in the Cyprus question, visits by diplomats of ‘interested countries’ have increased noticeably. They all want to help the UN secretary-general in his mission of good offices which rests on Security Council resolution 367 of 12 March 1975, the relevant part of which reads: “Requests the Secretary-General accordingly to undertake a new mission of good offices and to that end to convene the parties under new agreed procedures and place himself personally at their disposal, so that the resumption, the intensification and the progress of comprehensive negotiations, carried out in a reciprocal spirit of understanding and of moderation under his personal auspices and with his direction as appropriate, might thereby be facilitated.”