#Committee for Missing Persons (CMP)

The committee of ministers of the Council of Europe on Wednesday called on Turkey to grant unhindered access to all areas where the remains of missing persons from Cyprus may ...

Turkish Cypriots employed at the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP) called off a planned strike on Monday, after receiving their back pay at the last minute. The 50 employees ...

The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) on Thursday announced that it had received a donation of €2.6 million from the European Union. “The funds will support the committee’s goal of ...

Twelve missing people were identified in 2025 by the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP), while the remains of 20 more were discovered during excavations, Greek Cypriot representative Leonidas Pantelides told the Cyprus ...

Germany on Thursday donated €200,000 to the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP), dedicated to locating and identifying remains. Thursday’s donation bringing Germany’s financial assistance to the CMP to €1.6 million ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman paid a joint visit to the Committee on Missing Persons’ laboratory in the buffer zone in Nicosia on Thursday, ahead of ...

Excavations are being carried out at seven locations across Cyprus in search of people who went missing during intercommunal conflicts between 1963 and 1974, House refugees committee chairman and Akel MP Nikos ...

A second meeting between President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman under the auspices of the UN secretary-general’s personal envoy, Maria Angela Holguin was scheduled for December 11, ...

The European Parliament has approved the EU budget for 2026, securing additional funding that benefits Cyprus.  MEP Michalis Hadjipantela played a central role in the negotiations, ensuring that the country’s ...

The Turkish government on Wednesday donated US$100,000 to the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP). The donation was formally handed over to the CMP’s Turkish Cypriot member Hakki Muftuzade by ...

Akel member of the European parliament Giorgos Georgiou has called for a “common monument” to honour the people from both the Turkish Cypriot and the Greek Cypriot communities who went ...

Former Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat, who served in post between 2005 and 2010, said he “regrets” the European parliament’s plans to erect a monument to the Greek Cypriots who ...

President Nikos Christodoulides is “intensifying pressure” on Turkey on the issue of Cyprus’ missing persons, the government’s humanitarian affairs director Anna Aristotelous said on Saturday. Addressing a meeting of ...

The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) on Wednesday thanked the Stelios Philanthropic Foundation and Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou for donating excavation equipment worth €45,000 to its cause. “The equipment will contribute to ...

Germany has donated €160,000 to the CMP (Committee on Missing Persons) in Cyprus. The donation makes Germany’s financial contribution to the CMP to a total of €960,000 since 2006. These funds will ...

Addressing the humanitarian consequences of the Turkish invasion is an imperative, President Nikos Christodoulides said. Speaking at a commemoration event in Voroklini on Tuesday, Christodoulides said that the drama of ...

A collective apology is owed to the relatives of the missing, Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said on Saturday, as he attended the funeral of a man who died during the ...

The European Union donated €2.6 million to the Committee on Missing Persons, it was announced on Thursday. Following their receipt of the donation, the CMP said they wish “to express deep ...

The Republic of Ireland on Thursday donated €25,000 to the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP), taking the total of donations made by the country since 2006 to €450,000. The CMP said the money “...

House President Annita Demetriou called on Turkey to “contribute” to the search for missing persons in Cyprus on Thursday. She said the House of Representatives expresses its “undivided support for ...

The UN Secretary-General continues to be in active consultation with both sides on the appointment of an envoy for the Cyprus problem, UN Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix said ...

Switzerland and the committee of missing persons (CMP) signed an agreement for the contribution of one million Swiss francs on Wednesday an announcement said. According to the announcement, the 1 million ...

A new street art in Nicosia suggests Cypriots ‘forgot to remember’ the occupied territories, thousands of missing, refugees and dead. The island’s outline is depicted in white with red ...