President Mehmet Ali Talat will meet with UN Secretary-General
Kofi Annan on 20th of November. The meeting will take place at
the UN Central Office in Geneva at "Palais des Nations".
STUDIES ON MISSING PERSONS
KUCUK: "THE NEW PHASE OF THE PROJECT TO START IN JANUARY 2007"
It has been announced that the Autonomous Missing
Persons Committee would start a new phase of excavations in January within
the project, which has been conducted in coordination with the Argentine
Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF).
The Turkish Cypriot Member of the Committee Gulden
Plumer Kucuk told the TAK news agency that the excavations, which started
last August, were still continuing. She said they extended their contract
with EAAF for 2007.
Kucuk also said that work was still going on to find
further funds for the continuation of the project next year.
Kucuk explained that the project consisted of 5 phases;
searching the burial places; carrying out exhumations and finding the
remains; registration and organization of the remains in the Anthropology
laboratory; preparing the remains for identity identification; making the
DNA tests and handing over the remains to their relatives.
"Preparatory work of the project has ended and we are
at the stage of exhuming the remains and taking them to the Anthropology
laboratory," said Plumer Kucuk.
She noted that, because of the continuation of
unexpected developments, it was not so easy to set a date for the
completion of the project or to provide the number of the remains found so
far.
