The Home Committee on Refugees realized about progress within the work of the Committee on Lacking Individuals (CMP), throughout a gathering on Tuesday, in Nicosia, with the CMP’s Greek Cypriot member, Leonidas Pantelides.
CMP member defined that the method of analysis is time-consuming and complex, however progress was made just lately with the usage of trendy know-how.
The MPs attending the assembly had been briefed concerning the difficulties encountered by the analysis groups throughout every stage of the method. A few of the elements affecting their work embody the presence of navy services in lots of areas all through the Turkish-occupied territories, built-up areas in addition to areas that had been changed into parks or forests, by planting bushes on high of burial areas.
The consultant of the Greek Cypriot Group within the CMP, Leonidas Pantelides, said after the assembly that “analysis efforts are certainly intensified, since we’re pressed for time and there are lots of individuals nonetheless lacking.” Trendy know-how is put into use and the CMP is working with a workforce of consultants from the USA, who can be returning to Cyprus to start with of summer time, with new gear that “hopefully will assist us resolve totally different points”, Pantelides mentioned.
“Proper now, we now have seven crews working in full pace” he added and mentioned that there are 100 instances to be excavated and greater than 200 areas, for which present info is being evaluated.
The President of the Parliamentary Committee and MP of AKEL, Nicos Kettiros, mentioned after the assembly the in accordance with CMP information, analysis is ongoing for 770 Greek Cypriots and roughly 200 Turkish Cypriots who went lacking within the Turkish-occupied and free areas of the Republic.
In accordance with Kettiros, there are new information, hopefully to be introduced quickly. He additionally mentioned that there was progress concerning 2,500 small bones, saved within the CMP lab, ready for identification and added that the difficulty can be mentioned once more within the Parliamentary Committee.
Cyprus has been divided since 1974, when Turkish troops invaded and occupied its northern third. Since then, the destiny of a whole lot of individuals stays unknown.
A Committee on Lacking Individuals has been established, upon settlement between the leaders of the 2 communities, with the scope of exhuming, figuring out and returning the stays of lacking individuals to their relations.
(CNA)