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CMP delegation to engage UK Cypriot community Cyprus

CMP delegation to engage UK Cypriot community

March 20th, 20191107 A delegation from the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) is currently in the UK for a series of meetings with British officials and members of the Cypriot diaspora. The delegation was received at the Foreign Office on Tuesday. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency, the Greek Cypriot member of the Committee Nestoras Nestoros said the...
CoE urges Turkey to assist CMP Cyprus

CoE urges Turkey to assist CMP

March 14th, 20191793 The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has urged Turkish authorities to assist the Committing on Missing Persons (CMP) in any way it can. During a meeting in Strasbourg this week, the body issued a decision in which it “deeply deplored the decision of Turkey not to participate in the discussions and urged the Turkish...
CMP to run campaign for elderly to come forward with information Cyprus

CMP to run campaign for elderly to come forward with information

March 8th, 20191703 The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) refuses to give up, despite the fact that identifying remains of missing persons will not increase as time passes by and witnesses pass away, member Paul-Henri Arni has said. “We are optimistic and we work systematically to carry out our mission,” Arni said in an interview with the Cyprus...
China donates €10,000 to CMP Cyprus

China donates €10,000 to CMP

February 26th, 20191163 China donated €10,000 to the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) on Tuesday, after the Chinese ambassador to Cyprus Huang Xingyuan paid a visit to the CMP laboratory. Xingyuan underlined the support of China to the CMP’s humanitarian efforts and discussed possible areas of cooperation with CMP members, an announcement issued by the...
Luxembourg donates €3,000 to CMP Cyprus

Luxembourg donates €3,000 to CMP

February 12th, 20191479 The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) announced on Tuesday that the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg made its first-ever donation of €3,000. “This contribution to the CMP project on the exhumation, identification and return of remains of missing persons in Cyprus will support the Committee’s goal of identifying and returning as many...
CMP to launch new excavation in Assia Cyprus

CMP to launch new excavation in Assia

January 21st, 20191125 The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) will launch a new excavation on Tuesday in Assia village in the north of the island to locate the remains of two Greek Cypriot soldiers missing since 1974, who according to information by the Turkish Cypriot side were buried there. CNA has learned that the excavation will take place outside a...
Liverpool’s Merseyside police investigators train CMP staff Cyprus

Liverpool’s Merseyside police investigators train CMP staff

January 18th, 20191866 Two senior trainers from Liverpool’s Merseyside police have provided training in Nicosia to more than 20 Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots involved in the investigative efforts for the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP). According to a CMP announcement, the training which took place this week, was led by senior Merseyside police...
Experts approve work of CMP during Cyprus visit Cyprus

Experts approve work of CMP during Cyprus visit

January 11th, 20191134 Four prominent experts were in Cyprus this week for an assessment of the work of the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP). Following a request from the CMP members, they assessed the work of its genetic and identification teams as well as the archeaologist team. “All previous recommendations made in recent years to the...
‘Disappointing year' for CMP in terms of recovering remains Cyprus

‘Disappointing year' for CMP in terms of recovering remains

December 22nd, 20181654 THE representative of the Greek Cypriot side in the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP), Nestoras Nestoros, on Friday described the results of the Committee’s excavations during 2018 as poor. However, he expressed optimism that things would be better in 2019 and that Turkey would cooperate in helping solving the...
Ireland donates €25,000 to CMP Cyprus

Ireland donates €25,000 to CMP

December 18th, 20181157 The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) on Tuesday expressed its gratitude to Ireland for its latest donation of €25,000. This brings the Irish financial assistance to the CMP to a total of €350,000 over the past 12 years, it said. “This contribution to the CMP Project on the Exhumation, Identification and Return of Remains of...
EU Commission signs off on Cyprus aid programmes worth €5.5m Cyprus

EU Commission signs off on Cyprus aid programmes worth €5.5m

November 30th, 20181818 The European Commission signed two new agreements in support of the Turkish Cypriot community, the EU scholarship programme and the support for the committee on missing persons (CMP), amounting to €5.5 million in total. Under the EU aid programme, the commission signed an agreement with the British Council for the amount of €2.5...
CMP finds remains of missing person in a well in the north Cyprus

CMP finds remains of missing person in a well in the north

November 21st, 20181671 A bi-communal excavation team from the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP) has recovered the remains of one individual in a well at Sinda/İnönü in the north on Tuesday, it was announced Wednesday. "This well poses serious safety risks as no authorisation was received by the landowner to open up an access ramp," a...
‘CMP will continue until fate of all missing known’ Cyprus

‘CMP will continue until fate of all missing known’

October 30th, 20181144 Irrespective of the number of remains found, the efforts of the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) should not cease until the fate of every missing person has been determined, its Greek Cypriot member Nestoras Nestoros said on Tuesday. Responding to statements made on Monday evening by Presidential Commissioner Photis Photiou warning...
CMP locates human remains at a site in the north Cyprus

CMP locates human remains at a site in the north

October 18th, 20181856 The remains of one missing person were located on Thursday during excavations in the village of Ayios Ermolaos in the north. A statement issued by the Office of the Greek Cypriot Member to the Committee of Missing Persons (CMP) said excavations were currently underway in Arsos, Dikomo, Morphou and Nicosia. It added that so far...
Relatives of the missing will be given forensic report if requested Cyprus

Relatives of the missing will be given forensic report if requested

September 24th, 2018931 Presidential Commissioner Photis Photiou announced on Monday that in the interests of transparency, families of the missing persons will be given, at their request, a detailed forensic report. Photiou was speaking after he signed an agreement with the Νational and Kapodistrian University of Athens to conduct anthropological and...
Did a fig tree grow out of the remains of a Turkish Cypriot man missing since 1974? Cyprus

Did a fig tree grow out of the remains of a Turkish Cypriot man missing since 1974?

September 23rd, 201820209 News was spreading fast on social media and foreign media over the weekend that a missing Turkish Cypriot man’s remains from 1974 were uncovered after a fig tree grew out of a seed in his stomach. The story initially published in Turkish newspaper Hurriyet last week has been picked up by the British tabloids, MSN and other outlets....
Government donates €135,000 to CMP Cyprus

Government donates €135,000 to CMP

September 13th, 20181274 The government on Thursday donated €135,000 to the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP). This donation brings the Republic of Cyprus’ financial assistance to the CMP to a total of €2,935,700 since 2005, making it the largest single donor country. “This contribution to the CMP project on the exhumation, identification and...
Cyprus and France aim to strengthen ties Cyprus

Cyprus and France aim to strengthen ties

September 7th, 20181891 French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian on Friday said both Cyprus and France and their Presidents want the two countries` cooperation on defence issues to be further developed. In statements after talks on Friday with his Cypriot counterpart, Nicos Christodoulides, Le Drian said that cooperation among the two countries on...
Dutch FM hopes to see resumption of Cyprus talks, visits CMP lab Cyprus

Dutch FM hopes to see resumption of Cyprus talks, visits CMP lab

September 6th, 20181475 Dutch Foreign Minister Stef Blok on Thursday expressed the hope that UN Secretary-General’s temporary envoy Jane Holl Lute’s consultations will lead to the resumption of Cyprus talks and said he was convinced that with the right political will and flexibility among all involved parties a settlement could be reached. Blok who was on...
CMP searching for mass grave in Trachonas Cyprus

CMP searching for mass grave in Trachonas

August 31st, 20182687 The committee on missing persons (CMP) is searching for a mass grave in Trachonas, in north Nicosia, where it is thought Greek Cypriots were buried during the Turkish invasion in 1974. The excavations are in the same area where 36 missing Greek Cypriots were found in two locations in 2015. CMP member Nestoras Nestoros told the...
CMP to begin excavation in Strovolos, Nicosia Cyprus

CMP to begin excavation in Strovolos, Nicosia

August 23rd, 20182057 The Committee for Missing Persons (CMP) will begin excavations in Strovolos, in Nicosia on Monday to search for the remains of two Turkish Cypriots missing since 1964, it was reported on Thursday. A number of other excavations that were halted for the summer holidays are also set to resume in the north next week to locate Greek...
Turkey's attitude on missing persons ‘criminal and inhuman’, Photiou says Cyprus

Turkey's attitude on missing persons ‘criminal and inhuman’, Photiou says

June 24th, 20182565 Turkey’s attitude on the humanitarian issue of missing persons is criminal and inhuman, Presidential Commissioner Photis Photiou has said, adding that the international community had failed to exert pressure on Ankara. Photiou was speaking at a funeral for Second Lieutenant Christodoulos Hadjichristodoulou of Georgios, who was until...
CMP has no plans to end its operations Cyprus

CMP has no plans to end its operations

June 13th, 20181086 The Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP) ON Wednesday dismissed press reports that it would be terminating its operations. “Contrary to what is stated in an article published by Politis newspaper on 11 June, the CMP would like to reassure families that no plans exist, or are under discussion, to terminate the operations of...
Identification of missing persons slowing down Cyprus

Identification of missing persons slowing down

June 12th, 20181426 Humanitarian Affairs Commissioner Photis Photiou on Tuesday sounded the alarm to MPs on the slowdown in identifications of missing persons and called for a joint government-parliament meeting because time was running out. He told lawmakers the remains of just eight people were identified by the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) in...
Missing persons decision has pros and cons, Nestoros says Cyprus

Missing persons decision has pros and cons, Nestoros says

June 9th, 20181561 The decision on missing persons in Cyprus, adopted recently by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, contains positive elements but is also missing some important points, said Nestoras Nestoros, the Representative of the Greek Cypriot side to the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP). The issue was...
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