President Mustafa Akıncı has announced that €50,000 has been donated to the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP).

The €50,000 donation will be used to help identify the potential burial places that are mentioned in the 1963, 1964 and 1974 archives.

President Akıncı stated that the Committee on Missing Persons has developed a research project focussing on the archives within and outside of Cyprus, and an additional budget is needed to establish this team. The donation by the TRNC Presidency will fund this new team and enable the archives project to go ahead.

In addition to the ongoing studies of the CMP, this new project will open up access to new information in the archives of the TRNC; Turkey; The Greek Cypriot National Guard; Greece; Greek Cypriot Police; Red Cross; the UN; and UN military from 1963-1964 and 1974 for the first time.

The TRNC Presidency has previously donated €75,000 to the CMP and announced that the necessary permits have been granted by military authorities, with the support of the Presidency, to CMP excavation teams to start necessary works in all 30 currently known potential burial sites in the TRNC military zone.

680 of the 2001 missing people have been found so far with the ongoing studies of the Committee.