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Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 11-02-09
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[01] CMP - PARTIES - SUPPORT
[01] CMP - PARTIES - SUPPORT
Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot politicians have expressed their
support to the work carried out by the Committee on Missing Persons
(CMP), the task of which is to locate and identify remains of Greek
Cypriots missing since the Turkish invasion in 1974 or Turkish Cypriots
missing since the early 1960s, when intercommunal fighting broke out.
Leaders and representatives of Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot
political parties, which participate in the regular bi-communal
meetings at the Ledra Palace, under the auspices of the embassy of the
Slovak Republic to Cyprus, have visited the facilities of the CMP in
the United Nations Protected Area in Nicosia, accompanied by Slovak
Ambassador in Nicosia, Anna Turenikova.
After watching a documentary on the work of CMP, they visited the CMP
Anthropological Laboratory, which analyses exhumed remains of missing
persons before bone samples are sent to the Cyprus Institute for
Neurology and Genetics Laboratory of Forensic Genetics for DNA
identification.
The members of the tripartite CMP, Greek Cypriot Elias Georgiades,
Turkish Cypriot Gulden Plumer Kucuk and UN appointed representative
Christophe Zirod briefed them about the work of the CMP, asking for the
support of the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot political parties so
as to continue their work unhindered. They also underlined the need to
speed up the process of exhumation and identification of remains and
referred to the refusal of the Turkish army to allow access to military
zones in the northern Turkish occupied areas of Cyprus.
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