Release Date: Mar 02, 2018
PRESS RELEASE
United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations visits CMP
(Nicosia, 2 March 2018) – Today, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, visited the CMP Anthropological Laboratory and met with the CMP Members and scientists. The CMP Members briefed him on the progress made and the challenges faced by the Committee and conveyed their gratitude for the United Nations’ continuing support to the humanitarian work of the CMP.
The CMP has so far identified 868 missing persons from both communities among the 2,003 persons who went missing in Cyprus during the events of 1963-64 and 1974.