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Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 07-03-08
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[01] PRESIDENT PAPADOPOULOS - MISSING PERSONS
[01] PRESIDENT PAPADOPOULOS - MISSING PERSONS
Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos said that the government is
continuing efforts to cooperate with Turkey regarding the fate of
Christakis Georgiou, who was five years old when he disappeared during
the 1974 Turkish invasion of the island.
The government, he pointed out, is also concerned about establishing
the fate of all other missing persons.
Speaking at Larnaca Airport before departing for Brussels, President
Papadopoulos said that the case of Christakis Georgiou ``has been known
since 1975 and at times has been raised before the Committee on Missing
Persons and the Council of Europe, which is examining the
implementation of the Fourth Interstate Appeal of Cyprus against
Turkey.``
President Papadopoulos explained that the European Court of Human
Rights decision in Cyprus` Fourth Interstate Appeal calls on Turkey to
cooperate in efforts to determine the fate of the missing persons, by
giving any relevant information it has.
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