United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs Rosemary Anne DiCarlo, paid a visit on Wednesday to the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP). According to a tweet from the UN in Cyprus, DiCarlo and Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus Colin Stewart paid today a tribute to the work of CMP. The tweet adds that “when people go missing, it deeply influences their families and communities and the efforts of reconciliation”. Cyprus has been divided since the 1974 Turkish invasion. Numerous rounds of talks under the UN aegis failed so far to yield results. Since the Turkish invasion, the fate of hundreds of people remains unknown. A Committee on Missing Persons has been established, upon agreement between the leaders of the two communities, with the scope of exhuming, identifying and returning to their relatives the remains of 492 Turkish Cypriots and 1,510 Greek Cypriots, who went missing during the inter-communal fighting of 1963-1964 and in 1974.
Source: Cyprus News Agency