Posts tagged with "CMP"

Remains of some missing persons misidentified (updated) Cyprus

Remains of some missing persons misidentified (updated)

February 16th, 20183719 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, 20181740 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, 20173563 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, 20173626 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, 20173687 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, 20173591 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, 20172619 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, 20173614 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, 20172387 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, 20174674 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, 20175809 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, 20175159 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, 20171900 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, 20171861 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, 20171956 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, 20173096 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, 20173677 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...
Remains of Greek fallen handed over (Updated) Cyprus

Remains of Greek fallen handed over (Updated)

May 26th, 20171790 The remains of 16 Greek soldiers who were killed during the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus and of one soldier who was killed on board the vessel Fatehon in 1964 when the Turkish air force bombed and sank the ship were returned on Friday. A special church ceremony to mark the return took place in Nicosia. The remains were...
Mystery body in north grave could be great-grandmother of slain Kalopsidiotis Cyprus

Mystery body in north grave could be great-grandmother of slain Kalopsidiotis

May 21st, 20172737 Politis says it may have solved the mystery of the identity of an elderly woman hurriedly buried in an existing grave in the north in 1974, and that it might be the great-grandmother of murdered businessman Phanos Kalopsidiotis, it reported on Sunday. Two weeks ago the paper published a photo of what appeared to be the only intact...
Australia donates €7,000 to CMP Cyprus

Australia donates €7,000 to CMP

May 18th, 20171001 The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) on Thursday  thanked Australia for its donation of €7,000 saying this had brought  the country’s financial assistance to the CMP to a total of €13,300 over the past ten years. The CMP said the donation would contribute to its goal of identifying and returning as many remains of missing...
CMP excavation teams locate the remains of three missing persons Cyprus

CMP excavation teams locate the remains of three missing persons

May 16th, 20171609 The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) excavation teams have located the remains of one individual in a civilian area in Famagusta, and the remains of two additional individuals within a military zone at Saint Hilarion in the north, on May 15, the Committee said. In addition to the aforementioned sites, the CMP bi-communal excavation...
CMP finds human remains in north military zone Cyprus

CMP finds human remains in north military zone

May 11th, 20171513 Human remains were found on Thursday in a military zone in Ayios Ilarionas on Pentadaktylos mountain range in the north. The discovery was made by crews working for the committee on missing persons. Greek Cypriot member of the CMP Nestoras Nestoros said the remains were found north of a furnace in which bones were discovered in the...
CMP to use UN documents to help find burial sites Cyprus

CMP to use UN documents to help find burial sites

May 11th, 20171237 Documents retrieved from United Nations archives in New York are to be used to help investigators locate some of the island’s missing, the Committee for Missing Persons announced on Tuesday. Three members of the committee were in New York from April 24 to May 5 to search confidential and publicly accessible UN archives from the...
Remains of three missing Greek soldiers identified by CMP Cyprus

Remains of three missing Greek soldiers identified by CMP

April 21st, 20171657 The families of three Greek soldiers, who went missing during the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus, have been informed this week that their remains were recently identified and they will be handed over to the next of kin during an official ceremony in Cyprus on May 25.Their remains were found during the period January to May 2015, close...
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