Posts tagged with "CMP"

CMP excavation teams locate the remains of three missing persons Cyprus

CMP excavation teams locate the remains of three missing persons

May 16th, 20171653 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, 20171542 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, 20171269 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, 20171693 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...
Cyprus donates €125K to CMP Cyprus

Cyprus donates €125K to CMP

April 20th, 20171616 Cyprus donated €125,000 to the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP), it was announced on Thursday. The CMP expressed its sincere thanks to the Republic of Cyprus for its donation, which brings the country’s financial assistance to the committee to around €2.5m since 2005. “This donation to the CMP project on the exhumation,...
UK donates €124,000 to CMP, offers to open its archives Cyprus

UK donates €124,000 to CMP, offers to open its archives

March 31st, 20171427 The British government on Friday donated €124,000 to the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) and granted access to its archives for the period between 1963 and 1974 to assist in the committee’s task of locating burial sites. The donation was made by the UK High Commissioner to Cyprus, Matthew Kidd, who visited  the committee’s...
Turkey donates €92,000 to CMP Cyprus

Turkey donates €92,000 to CMP

March 29th, 20171708 Turkey on Wednesday donated €92,000 to the project of exhumation, identification and return of remains of missing persons in Cyprus, it was announced on Wednesday. According to the committee on missing persons (CMP), the donation brings the Turkish financial assistance to the CMP to a total of €826,000 over the past 10...
Over 300 missing persons identifications to be reviewed by US lab Cyprus

Over 300 missing persons identifications to be reviewed by US lab

February 26th, 20171754 The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) has decided to review the statistical correlation of genetic results with those of relatives of missing persons in cases that were identified at The Cyprus Institute of Neurology & Genetics (CING) between 2007 and 2012. The process will take place at the US BODE forensics laboratory. CMP...
New push to raise awareness of missing persons issue abroad Cyprus

New push to raise awareness of missing persons issue abroad

February 8th, 20171340 A meeting of competent authorities, which convened on Wednesday decided on a series of actions abroad to help raise awareness about the issue of missing persons. The meeting was attended by all relevant services and representatives of organisations of relatives of missing persons, under the presidency of the Presidential Commissioner...
Religious leaders unite in missing call Cyprus

Religious leaders unite in missing call

December 10th, 20161688 The leaders of religious communities in Cyprus joined forces with the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) in a call for new information on burial sites of Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots whose fate is still unknown, it was announced on Saturday. In a brief recorded message, Archbishop Chrysostomos, Turkish Cypriot mufti Talip...
CMP might not have remains to identify in 2017, Photiou says Cyprus

CMP might not have remains to identify in 2017, Photiou says

October 15th, 20161531 Turkey’s policy in not being forthcoming in handing over information on missing persons means that by next year, the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) lab might not have any remains for identification, Commissioner for Humanitarian Affairs Photis Photiou said on Saturday. Speaking in Nicosia at the burial of the remains of Yiannis...
US, Germany donate €222,700 to CMP (Update) Cyprus

US, Germany donate €222,700 to CMP (Update)

October 7th, 20161003 THE Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) on Friday expressed its thanks to the United States and Germany for their donations amounting to around €222,700 made in support of its work. The contribution of the US, $136,780 - around €122,700 - is allocated to the committee to fund the new CMP Archival Research Coordinator position. This...
Remains found by CMP near Livadia, Karpas Cyprus

Remains found by CMP near Livadia, Karpas

October 6th, 20161709 The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) announced Thursday the discovery, in an area near the village of Livadia in the Karpas, of the remains of two more people missing since the Turkish invasion of 1974. “From our initial findings it seems we have the remains of two people,” Nestoras Nestoros, the Greek-Cypriot member of the...
Ireland donates €25,000 to CMP Cyprus

Ireland donates €25,000 to CMP

October 5th, 20161130 The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) on Wednesday expressed its thanks to Ireland for its donation of €25,000. This brings the Irish financial assistance to the CMP to a total of €300,000 over the past ten years, it said. “The donation to the CMP Project on the Exhumation, Identification and Return of Remains of Missing...
Beneath the carob trees Cyprus

Beneath the carob trees

September 25th, 20163455 A book released this week shows how the Committee for Missing Persons has helped families on both sides of the island come to terms with their loss Since 2006, the Committee of Missing Persons has excavated 1,041 secret burial sites across the island as they search for the remains of 2,001 missing Greek and Turkish Cypriots. In that...
Book on work of CMP launched Cyprus

Book on work of CMP launched

September 20th, 20161080 The three members of the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) on Tuesday officially launched the book Beneath the Carob Trees-The Lost Lives of Cyprus at the Goethe Institute, in Nicosia. The book, which is available in Greek, Turkish and English, is authored by Rory Maclean with photographs by internationally renowned photographer Nick...
Photiou speaks of 'critical period' for Cyprus' future Cyprus

Photiou speaks of 'critical period' for Cyprus' future

September 18th, 20161587 Presidential Commissioner for Humanitarian Affairs Photis Photiou said on Sunday that Cyprus was going through a “critical period for its future”. Speaking at the funeral of Spyros Christofides, who was killed during the 1974 Turkish invasion, Photiou called for unity. “The period we are going through is critical for the...
€200,000 set aside to investigate 1974 missing Cyprus

€200,000 set aside to investigate 1974 missing

July 28th, 20161405 THE government has set aside an additional €200,000 for research into Greek Cypriot civilians missing since 1974, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Thursday. He made the reveal during a ceremony in Nicosia where honorary diplomas were presented to relatives of civilians who are still listed as missing since the events of the...
Turkey to blame for lack of solution to missing persons issue, says Photiou Cyprus

Turkey to blame for lack of solution to missing persons issue, says Photiou

July 17th, 20161528 The issue of missing persons in Cyprus remains unsolved and Turkey bears the responsibility by putting obstacles in the way, Commissioner for Humanitarian Affairs Photis Photiou said on Sunday. Speaking during a memorial service for fallen soldiers who lost their lives during the 1974 Turkish invasion, Photiou called on Turkey to take...
Special ceremonies for the missing this month Cyprus

Special ceremonies for the missing this month

July 6th, 20161077 PRESIDENT Nicos Anastasiades will honour 610 persons who went missing during 1974 with two ceremonies on July 21 and July 28. The families of the missing will be invited to the ceremonies at the presidential palace. “The bones of 149 of these persons have been identified and reburied,” Presidential Commissioner for Humanitarian...
CMP trying to track down two soldiers who served in 1974 Cyprus

CMP trying to track down two soldiers who served in 1974

June 9th, 20161511 The Committee on Missing Persons on Thursday issued a public appeal seeking two soldiers who served in the medical corps during the 1974 Turkish invasion and who may have information about people listed as missing since then. The two soldiers took part in the collection of dead soldiers from a battlefield in Nicosia in August, 1974...
US donates $250,000 to CMP Cyprus

US donates $250,000 to CMP

March 22nd, 20161270 The Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP) on Tuesday thanked the US for a donation of $250,000 (€223,000) in support of the work on locating the remains of missing persons. The CMP said the contribution was being provided through the UNDP-Action for Cooperation and Trust (ACT) Programme. “This brings the United States’...
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