TALAT AND PAPADOPOULOS MEETING TODAY
President Mehmet
Ali Talat met with the Greek Cypriot Leader Papadopoulos today
(3 June), at the Residence of Michael Moller, the UNFICYP’s Chief
of Mission, in the Buffer Zone near to Nicosia International
Airport.
According to
information received from UNFICYP, President Talat and Papadopuolos
participated in the meeting organized in the honour of
Christophe Girod the newly appointed Third Member of Autonomous
Missing Persons Committee, and gave support to the studies of the
committee.
STUDIES ON MISSING PERSONS IN CYPRUS
Autonomous Missing
Persons Committee, which intensified their studies in Cyprus with
the aim of identifying the identities of missing persons, following
the appointment of their 3. Member from the UN Christophe Girod,
met today (3 July) at a reception meeting.
The committee will
carry out its first mass exhumation in August, which is expected to
last for two months during which 200 missing Turkish and Greek
Cypriots will be identified and handed back to their families.
The Turkish side
which is spending great effort for the studies of the committee,
besides providing extra expert and staff to the committee, has
also increased its financial support. The TRNC ‘s financial support
for the committee since 1993, has reached to 1 million US Dollars,
financial support for the committe
great effort for the sutudies , 477 thousand o477477
thousand of which was made during the last two years.
Following the
appointment of its 3rd member, the fist official meeting
of the Autonomous Missing Persons Committee will be held on 7 July,
Friday.
According to the
official figures of the committee, which was established in line
with a UN Resolution in 1981, and officially started its studies
in 1984 ,there are 500 Turkish Cypriot who are missing and 1450
Greek Cypriots.
