Members of the Committee of Missing Persons to hold meetings in New York

 Members of the Committee of Missing Persons, who continue their efforts to discover, identify and deliver the remains of people who went missing in Cyprus between 1963 and 1974, will hold meetings in New York on the 8^th and 9^th of May. They are due to meet UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres during their visit, on the 9th of May.

According to Turkish Cypriot Member of the Committee, Gülden Plümer Küçük, the UN archives are already under examination as part of the committee’s project for “the exhumation, identification and return of the remains of missing persons”.

Küçük stated that the third member of the CMP in the Archives Working Group, Paul-Henri Arni, and two officers of the Greek Cypriot and the Turkish Cypriot contingent are studying the UN archives in New York. He added that the purpose of their visit to New York was to utilize the UN archives in the context of their project, and to hold a meeting with Guterres.

Küçük also said that the Committee had received a positive response from Turkey, Greece, the UK and other forces operating under the UN and the Red Cross to examine their archives in the hope of finding any information which may assist in the discovery and identification of the remains of missing persons.