Presidential Commissioner Photis Photiou met Monday with Head of UNDP in Cyprus Jakhongir Khaydarov and handed over Cyprus` donation to CMP, the Committee on Lacking Individuals, of 175,000 euro for 2021.
A press launch by the Presidency says that the donation was delivered in help and help of CMP’s efforts for the lacking individuals` difficulty Greek Cypriots, Turkish Cypriots and Greeks.
The press launch says that from the start of the exhumation program of CMP, the donations by the Cyprus Republic quantity to nearly 3,3 mln euro, the best quantity following the donations by the EU.
This quantity doesn’t embrace different types of help in direction of CMP’s program which might be funded immediately by the Republic and embrace seek for stays of lacking individuals and exhumation.
Photiou stated that the expectations of everybody concerned particularly the households of the lacking individuals is for CMP to face the challenges in an efficient and substantial method in order that it might ship its mission in success the soonest.
He stated that he’s hopeful that others will comply with the initiatives taken by Cyprus to help the duty by CMP. Photiou famous that a lot of the first diploma relations of lacking individuals are now not alive and so they left with out figuring out in regards to the destiny of their beloved. He stated that point is ruthless and the duties and tasks of all concerned are enormous in order that the ordeal of the relations is over and the destiny of every one of many lacking individuals is clarified.
Cyprus has been divided since 1974, when Turkish troops invaded and occupied 37% of its territory. Quite a few UN-backed talks to reunite the island have did not yield outcomes.
Because the Turkish invasion 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 to their relations the stays of lacking individuals.