A joint visit of President of the Republic Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar to the anthropological laboratory of the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus is underway.
Tatar arrived first at the Committee’s premises at 9 am, accompanied by former T/C negotiator Ergn Olgun, where he was welcomed by the members of CMP. He was followed about 20 minutes later by President Christodoulides who was accompanied by the Government Spokesperson Konstantinos Letymbiotis, while the negotiator of the G/C side, Menelaos Menelaou, was also present.
The two leaders were expected to first have a brief meeting with the members of the CMP and then to be given a tour of the workshop and be briefed on the work of the committee by the scientific staff.
Asked whether the two leaders would have a private meeting, UN sources said it would be up to them and that they would be able do so.
They added that a communiqué from is expected to be issued by the representative of the UN Good Offices mission in Cyprus at the conclusion of the visit.
Source: Cyprus News Agency