Cyprus renews funding for CMP

Cyprus confirmed renewed funding of €175,000 for the committee on missing persons (CMP) for the year 2021 during a meeting with the United Nations Development Programme.

Presidential Commissioner Fotis Fotiou met with Jakhongir Khaydarov, the head of UNDP in Cyprus, on Monday where the funding was announced, raising Republic’s total contributions since the programme began to €3.3m.

The committee is a bicommunal body which was established in 1981 with its stated aim being the recovery and identification the remains of 2002 persons (492 Turkish Cypriots and 1,510 Greek Cypriots) who went missing during the fighting in 1963 and 1964, as well as during 1974.