(Nicosia, 20 January 2020) – The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) wishes to express its sincere thanks to Ireland for its generous donation of EUR 25,000 made today. This brings the Irish financial assistance to the CMP to a total of EUR 375,000 over the past thirteen years.
(Nicosia 31 October 2019) – Today, a bi-communal excavation team of the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP) has exhumed the remains of two presumed missing persons close to Tekke Backcesi in Nicosia. Exhumations started a week ago and are ongoing.
The Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) are opening an international expert workshop “Mechanisms on Missing Persons: Clarifying the Fate and Supporting Families”. This event is held at the Ledra Palace Hotel in Nicosia, Cyprus, from 16 to 17 October 2019. Over 60 participants from 29 countries are attending.
(Nicosia, 9 July 2019) – Yesterday, the Swiss Minister of Foreign Affairs, H.E. Federal Councillor Ignazio Cassis visited the Anthropological Laboratory of the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP). Federal Councillor Cassis was accompanied by Dr Pierre-Yves Fux, Swiss Ambassador to Cyprus. The CMP Members briefed Federal Councillor Cassis on CMP’s humanitarian work of recovery, identification and return of the remains of persons who went missing in 1963, 1964 and 1974. They stressed the importance of this humanitarian project for the restoration of trust between communities and underlined how the return of the remains of missing persons to their loved ones prepares the ground for reconciliation.
The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) wishes to express its sincere thanks to the Slovak Republic for its donation of EUR 10,000 made today on the occasion of the visit to the CMP Laboratory of H.E. Mr. Miroslav Lajčák, Minister of Foreign & European Affairs. This brings the Slovak financial assistance to the CMP to a total of EUR 20,000 over the past years.
(Nicosia, 28 May 2019) – Thanks to precise information recently collected, a bi-communal excavation team of the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP) has recovered the human remains of one person at a site in Egkomi / Tuzla on 28 May 2019.
(Nicosia 10 May 2019) – A bi-communal excavation team of the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP) has started to recover human remains at a site in Stylloi / Mutluyaka on 10 May 2019.
(Nicosia, 29 March 2019) – A delegation of three German Parliamentarians led by Mr. Andrej Hunko, Chairman of the Germany-Cyprus Friendship Group, as well as his Deputies Ms. Lisa Paus and Mr. Johannes Schraps visited today the CMP Anthropological Laboratory.
(Nicosia, 27 March 2019) – Major-General Cheryl Pearce from Australia, UNFICYP’s new Force Commander, paid a visit today to the CMP Anthropological Laboratory. She was briefed by the three Members on CMP’s achievements and challenges and interacted with CMP’s scientists.
(Nicosia, 12 February 2019) – The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) wishes to express its sincere thanks to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg for its first ever donation of EUR 3,000 made today.
(Nicosia, 30 January 2019) – The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) wishes to express its sincere thanks to H.E. Mr Mustafa Akıncı for his generous donation of EUR 75,000 made on behalf of the Turkish Cypriot community today. This brings the Turkish Cypriot financial assistance to the CMP to a total of EUR 433,000 over the past thirteen years.
(Nicosia 18 January 2019) – Two senior trainers from Liverpool’s Merseyside police have provided for a highly valuable training program in Nicosia to more than 20 Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots involved in the investigative efforts of the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP). The training from 14 to 18 January 2019 was led by senior Merseyside police officers Mr. Tim Keelan, recently retired with more than 40 years investigation experience, and Mr. John Porter, a serving officer and trainer with more than 30 years’ experience.