Foreign CMP funding at risk
Germany and other countries are poised to withdraw their funding for Cyprus’ committee of missing persons (CMP), Greek Cypriot member Leonidas Pantelides told the house refugee committee on Tuesday.
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Missing persons committee still has ‘huge’ task ahead
Three hundred locations have been identified and are awaiting excavation, Greek Cypriot representative on the committee on missing persons (CMP) Leonidas Pantelides said on Wednesday.
In all, 900 cases are still ...
Years spent searching for the Missing
New book by the Turkish Cypriot representative on the Committee of Missing Persons
By Nikolaos Prakas
Fifteen years and all the ups and downs, successes and failures come to life ...
Turkish Cypriot CMP member says Turkey being cooperative
The Turkish Cypriot official on the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) on Wednesday lashed out at comments made by Presidential Commissioner Photis Photiou over Turkey’s lack of information giving ...
Photiou hopeful that more missing persons remains will be found this year
There is information and testimonies that may lead to the recovery of the remains of more missing persons in 2023 after a particularly bad year in 2022, Presidential Commissioner Photis Photiou said ...
CMP hoping to find more missing persons in 2023
The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) has leads on two or three more possible burial sites of missing persons, member Leonidas Pantelides said on Wednesday.
Asked about the committee’s ...
The EU continues to support the Committee on Missing Persons, European Commission says
The European Commission announced on Tuesday the signing of a new agreement for the continuation of EU-financed support to the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP), as part of the European ...
Remains of four missing people found in Troullous
The committee on missing persons (CMP) announced on Tuesday it had found the remains of four people at a site in Troullous village in Larnaca.
The team had been searching ...
Plaque with names unveiled to keep alive memory of the island’s missing
The government on Thursday sent a message to the international community to remind it of the need to clarify the fate the missing persons in Cyprus.
Speaking at the unveiling ...
Excavating for 70 missing persons at Dikomo landfill will cost €10 million
The amount of money needed for work at Dikomo landfill, where the remains of approximately 70 Greek Cypriots are believed to be buried, is huge, close to €10 million, but the work ...
Luxembourg gives €5,000 to committee for missing
The Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP) received a donation of €5,000 from the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg last week.
According to a CMP press release on Tuesday, these funds ...
Search for remains of nurses killed in Tylliria in 1964
The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) is carrying out exhumations at the Paphos cemetery as part of efforts to identify the remains of people who perished in the Tylliria area ...
Greece donates €150,000 to CMP
The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) received a donation of €150,000 from Greece, taking the country’s contribution to a total of €345,000 since 2006.
The CMP said that in 2022, these funds would ...
Issue of Cyprus Missing must be depoliticised – UN experts
Time is running out and the issue of missing persons in Cyprus must be depoliticised, the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances stated in its latest report.
The experts, who visited ...
Expert says landfill can safely be explored
A preliminary study on the former landfill in occupied Dikomo, where the remains of 70 Greek Cypriot missing persons are believed to be buried has been submitted to the committee on ...
Work to locate missing has become ‘unstuck’
After a period of stagnation, work to determine the fate of the missing is beginning to progress, thanks in part to the use of modern technology, Greek Cypriot member of ...
Remains of 37 individuals identified by CMP in 2021
Last year, the Committee of Missing Persons (CMP) identified the remains of 20 Greek Cypriots and nine Turkish Cypriots who were on the list of missing persons, the Greek Cypriot member ...
Ireland donates €25,000 to CMP
The Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP) on Tuesday expressed its sincere thanks to the Republic of Ireland for its donation of €25,000, which was received on November 8, 2021. This contribution ...
CMP carrying out excavations in seven areas
CMP crews are carrying out excavations for the remains of missing persons in six areas across the island but so far none have been located, officials said on Friday.
The ...
Nicosia to ask for excavation of site in Famagusta where two missing reported buried
Presidential Commissioner Photis Photiou said on Tuesday he has asked the Greek Cypriot representative on the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) to ask, for humanitarian reasons, for the immediate excavation ...
Efforts to locate 70 missing from Assia to start in August with landfill search
The expert who oversaw the restoration of a landfill in the north which is believed to be where the remains of 70 missing Greek Cypriots were buried is expected to visit ...
Dramatic reduction in exhumations for missing persons
By Mary Spyrou
The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) is “particularly concerned” over the dramatic reduction in the number of human remains found in recent exhumations, Presidential Commissioner Photis Photiou ...
EU official visits CMP laboratory
The EU’s Director-General for Structural Reform Support Mario Nava on Tuesday met the three members of the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) at its anthropological laboratory.
Nava, who was ...
CMP exhumed additional remains in April
During the month of April the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP) has exhumed additional human remains at an excavation site in Bellapais in the north, bringing the total ...