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MISSING PERSONS
COMMITTEE TO DELIVER REMAINS OF THE MISSING TO THEIR RELATIVES IN
2007
The third member
of the Autonomous Missing Persons Committee Swedish Christophe Girod
and Luis Fondebrieder, the Coordinator of EAAF (Argentinean Forensic
Anthropology Team), which has been carrying out the anthropological
and archeological studies for missing persons, yesterday made
statements to the Cyprus Turkish News Agency (TAK) regarding the
Anthropology Laboratory established in the UN-controlled buffer zone
and the studies for identifying the identities of the missing
persons.
Luis
Fondebrieder stated that during the studies for excavations,
identity identification and returning the remains to the relatives
of the missing persons, which had started in August, the remains
belonging to 70 missing persons had been found so far and 60 out of
this had been analyzed in the laboratory, but added that the DNA
tests on the remains had not yet been completed.
On the other
hand, the third member of the Missing Persons Committee Christophe
Girod announced that the remains of identified persons would be
returned to their families starting from the beginning of 2007.
Girod said that
both sides have provided financial and political support to the
works of the Committee and pointed out that until today they
announced 1468 Greek Cypriot and 502 Turkish Cypriot missing persons.
Meanwhile,
Jeniffer Wright, the assistant of Christophe Girod, stated that an
agreement had been reached with the Cyprus Neurology and Genetic
Laboratory in South Lefkosa on carrying the DNA tests and said the
agreement will be implemented under the observation of a Turkish
Cypriot and a Greek Cypriot expert.
30 November 2006
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