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Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 10-01-18
CONTENTS
[01] CMP WORK 2010
[02] CZECH MPs CYPRUS VISIT
[01] CMP WORK 2010
ิhe Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP) will intensify its
work in 2010 with eight exhumation teams six in the northern Turkish
occupied part of Cyprus and two in the southern government controlled
areas of the Republic, according to an announcement issued Monday by
the CMP.
Since inception of its exhumation project in August 2006, the CMP has
retrieved skeletal elements which relate to more than 600 persons and
identified and returned to their families remains of 196 missing
individuals (145 missing Greek Cypriots and 51 missing Turkish
Cypriots), it adds.
It notes that the exhumation and identification work of the CMP is
guided by scrupulous scientific process and precise rules and is based
on the internationally accepted standards and practices, adding that
valuable advice is given by the Argentinean experts of EAAF and the
ICRC.
The investigations of the CMP, it continues, are conducted in the sole
interest of the families whose loved ones are missing and whose pain
and sensitivities must be respected by all.
[02] CZECH MPs CYPRUS VISIT
Four members of the House of Representatives of the Czech Republic,
members of the Permanent Committee on Equal Opportunities for Men and
Women, arrive on Monday in Cyprus, for a five-day official visit, at
the invitation of the Committee on Equal Opportunities for Men and
Women in the Cyprus Parliament.
According to an official announcement, the delegation will be received
by Cyprus House President Marios Garoyian. They will also hold separate
meetings with Cyprus Minister of Labour and Social Insurance Sotiroula
Charalambous, the Parliamentary Committee on Equal Opportunities for
Men and Women, the Mayor of Paphos Savvas Vergas, and Commissioner for
Administration Eliana Nicolaou.
The delegation from the Czech Parliament comprises Chairman of the
Committee Sona Markova, the Vice Chairman Kosta Dimitrov, and the
members Vlasta Bohdalova and Frantisek Laudat.
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