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CMP has no plans to end its operations Cyprus

CMP has no plans to end its operations

June 13th, 20181108 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, 20181455 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, 20181596 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...
Turkey donates $100,000 to CMP Cyprus

Turkey donates $100,000 to CMP

May 7th, 20182206 The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) on Monday thanked Turkey for its donation of $100,000 (€83,500). It brings the Turkish financial assistance to the CMP to a total of €909,500 over the past 11 years, the CMP said. “This donation to the CMP Project on the exhumation, identification and return of remains of missing persons...
Clinging to hope as time runs out for finding Cyprus’ missing Cyprus

Clinging to hope as time runs out for finding Cyprus’ missing

April 28th, 20184659 By Kyriaki Christodoulou Archaeologists from both sides of the Cyprus divide who work on exhumations with the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) are living in hope. They hope that more people will come forward with information on where remains might be buried, they hope that they can identify as many sets of remains as possible,...
Photiou discusses missing persons issue with senior UN official Cyprus

Photiou discusses missing persons issue with senior UN official

April 24th, 20181554 The missing persons issue was the main point of discussion at a meeting Presidential Commissioner Photis Photiou had with United Nations Under Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix in New York. Photiou, who is in the US representing the government at the Federation of Cypriot American Organisations meeting,...
UN official takes stock during Cyprus contacts Cyprus

UN official takes stock during Cyprus contacts

March 2nd, 20184723 By Evie Andreou AS A result of the strategic review of the UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus, the organisation is convinced that Unficyp will be fully equipped and resourced to implement its mandate and will be in a better position to do it, UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix said on...
Remains of some missing persons misidentified (updated) Cyprus

Remains of some missing persons misidentified (updated)

February 16th, 20183806 THE Commissioner of Humanitarian Affairs confirmed on Thursday that the remains of two missing persons have been misidentified. In a statement, reacting to media reports about the error, the commissioner said the misidentified remains had been unearthed in the south of the island. DNA testing by the Cyprus Institute for Neurology...
Portugal donates €15,000 to CMP Cyprus

Portugal donates €15,000 to CMP

January 31st, 20181804 Portugal has donated €15,000 to the work of the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) it was announced on Wednesday. It was the first contribution of Portugal to the CMP. “This donation to the CMP project on the exhumation, identification and return of remains of missing persons in Cyprus will contribute to the Committee’s goal...
‘The fate of every missing person will be ascertained’ Cyprus

‘The fate of every missing person will be ascertained’

December 16th, 20173676 Presidential Commissioner Photis Photiou said on Saturday that despite the obstacles raised by the Turkish side, “we continue and will continue to do everything possible to ascertain the fate of every missing person”. Speaking at an event to mark the decoration of the Christmas Tree for the Missing Persons in central Nicosia,...
Turkey's refuses to provide information on the missing, Anastasiades says Cyprus

Turkey's refuses to provide information on the missing, Anastasiades says

December 3rd, 20173688 Turkey's refuses to provide information on missing persons, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Sunday, adding that Ankara had tried to cover up its war crimes by moving remains to hamper the work of the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP). "We will insist and continue our efforts," he said atam event for missing...
Relatives of missing people criticise CMP Cyprus

Relatives of missing people criticise CMP

November 28th, 20173778 Relatives of missing persons from the occupied village of Assia on Tuesday criticised the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) for making their pain worse by not first investigating the validity of information that the remains of their loved ones had been moved from their mass grave to a former landfill in Dikomo in the north before...
Committee to search for remains of missing in former landfill Cyprus

Committee to search for remains of missing in former landfill

November 19th, 20173725 The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) is to visit a former landfill in Dikomo in the north, where the remains of around 70 people from Assia, who were murdered by Turkish soldiers during the 1974 invasion, are believed to be buried. According to the Greek Cypriot member of the CMP, Nestoras Nestoros, the Turkish Cypriot side...
Cyprus donates €265,000 to CMP Cyprus

Cyprus donates €265,000 to CMP

November 7th, 20172664 The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) on Tuesday expressed its thanks to the Republic of Cyprus for its donation of €265,000. In addition to the yearly contribution of €125,000, it includes €140,000 in funding for archive research. This allocation brings the Republic of Cyprus’ financial assistance to the CMP to a total of...
Excavations begin to recover missing persons remains near Nicosia hospital   Cyprus

Excavations begin to recover missing persons remains near Nicosia hospital  

November 1st, 20173700 By Angelos Anastasiou Excavation work to retrieve the remains of 31 victims of a bomb dropped during the first leg of the invasion of the northern part of Cyprus by the Turkish air force on July 20, 1974, at the location where the Nicosia General hospital has since been built started on Wednesday. According to reports, 28 of the...
Excavations to begin at Athalassa hospital next week Cyprus

Excavations to begin at Athalassa hospital next week

October 25th, 20172444 EXCAVATIONS at Athalassa hospital are set to begin next week, Presidential Commissioner for Humanitarian Affairs Photis Photiou said on Wednesday. Speaking during the House Committee session, he said the excavations will begin on Wednesday “where our compatriots have been buried for 43 years.” Asked on the number of fallen...
Missing persons' remains located in the north Cyprus

Missing persons' remains located in the north

October 12th, 20174746 Teams searching for people missing since the intercommunal clashes in the 60s and the Turkish invasion in 1974 have located the remains of two individuals during an excavation inside a military zone in the north. A statement from the committee on missing persons (Cmp) said the remains were exhumed in Kontemenos, located north-west of...
‘No solution with Turkish guarantees and intervention rights’ Cyprus

‘No solution with Turkish guarantees and intervention rights’

October 7th, 20175889 There can be no solution with Turkish guarantees and intervention rights, nor with the permanent presence of Turkish troops, Presidential Commissioner Photis Photiou reiterated on Saturday at the funeral of an identified missing person. Photiou was addressing the funeral of Kyriakos Aristodimou, who had been missing since 1974 and...
Excavations at two mass graves to start next month Cyprus

Excavations at two mass graves to start next month

August 19th, 20175265 Digging for the remains of Greek Cypriot missing persons in two mass graves at Ornithi, an area just outside the Turkish-held village of Ashia will commence by the end of next month, the Greek Cypriot member of the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) Nestoras Nestoros said on Friday. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency, Nestoros said...
Ireland donates €25,000 to CMP Cyprus

Ireland donates €25,000 to CMP

July 21st, 20171952 The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) on Friday expressed its thanks to Ireland for its donation of €25,000. This brings the Irish financial assistance to the CMP to a total of €325,000 over the past ten years. “This donation to the CMP Project on the Exhumation, Identification, and Return of Remains of Missing Persons in...
The Netherlands donates €122,000 to CMP Cyprus

The Netherlands donates €122,000 to CMP

July 14th, 20171909 The Netherlands has donated €122,000 to the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP), it was announced on Friday. According to a news release, the committee expressed its sincere thanks to the Netherlands for its donation, which brings the Dutch financial assistance to the CMP to a total of €622,000 over the past eleven...
Germany donates €100,000 to CMP Cyprus

Germany donates €100,000 to CMP

July 13th, 20172015 The Federal Republic of Germany donated on Thursday €100,000 to the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP). “This donation to the CMP Project on the exhumation, identification and return of remains of missing persons in Cyprus will contribute to the Committee’s goal of identifying and returning as many remains of missing individuals...
Remains found in military area of Dherynia Cyprus

Remains found in military area of Dherynia

June 29th, 20173145 Experts working for the missing persons committee (CMP) have located the remains of at least one individual in a military area in Dherynia, Famagusta, it was announced on Thursday. The CMP said its bi-communal excavation teams were continuing excavations at Voni/Gökhan, Bogazi/Boğaz, and Kontemenos/ Kılıçarslan, which are inside...
Karpas skull identified as Ottoman Cyprus

Karpas skull identified as Ottoman

June 20th, 20173736 A skull found on Monday in an area called Elisi, between Ayios Symeon and Korovia on the Karpas peninsula in the north, is thought to belong to an Ottoman Muslim, the daily Kibris newspaper reported. Turkish Cypriot authorities and archaeologists from the Missing Persons Committee went to the area to investigate the skull, found lying...
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