The Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP) on Wednesday announced that it has received a donation of €160,000 from the Federal Republic of Germany noting that this contribution brings Germany’s financial assistance to the CMP to a total of €960,000 since 2006.
“The funds will contribute to the Committee’s goal of identifying and returning the remains of missing individuals, bringing to an end the uncertainty which has affected the families for so many years”, CMP said in an announcement.
It is noted that the CMP was established in 1981 by an agreement between the Greek Cypriot and the Turkish Cypriot leaders, under the auspices of the United Nations and that the CMP Project on the Exhumation, Identification and Return of Remains of Missing Persons in Cyprus became operational in 2006 and is co-funded by the European Union.
So far, it said, 1,051 missing persons from both Cypriot communities have been identified and returned to their families for dignified burials.
Cyprus has been divided since 1974
, when Turkey invaded and occupied its northern third. Repeated rounds of UN-led peace talks have so far failed to yield results. The latest round of negotiations, in July 2017 at the Swiss resort of Crans-Montana ended inconclusively
Source: Cyprus News Agency