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The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) wishes to express its sincere thanks to Ireland for its donation of EUR 25,000 made today. This brings the Irish financial assistance to the CMP to a total of EUR 300,000 over the past ten years.
The United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus marked International Day of Peace yesterday with a special candle light vigil at Ledra Palace in the UN buffer zone.
The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) has the pleasure to announce the launch of a book, titled Beneath the Carob Trees: The Lost Lives of Cyprus, which documents the work undertaken by the Committee.
Joint Statement to the Press on behalf of the Greek Cypriot leader Mr. Nicos Anastasiades and the Turkish Cypriot leader Mr. Mustafa Akıncı
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) in Cyprus, Ms. Elizabeth Spehar, this afternoon met the UK's Minister for Europe and the Americas, Mr. Alan Duncan, at UNFICYP HQ in the buffer zone.
Elizabeth Spehar, former Director of DPA’s Policy and Mediation Division, arrived in Nicosia on 13 June to take up her new role as Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus.
On 14 August 1974, three Austrian peacekeepers serving with UNFICYP, 1/Lt. Johann Izay, MSgt. Paul Decombe and Cpl. August Isaak, lost their lives in an air attack in the vicinity of the small village of Koshi.
In a feat of incredible strength, Magdolna Petróczki of Hungary won the Masters European Weightlifting Championship for the 6th time, winning gold in the squat event, gold in the deadlift and silver in the bench press to be crowned the complex winner of the event.
All over the world, tens of millions of people are desperately seeking refuge, many of them far from home and even farther from safety. Migrants and refugees face imposing physical obstacles and bureaucratic barriers.
Poverty, violence, human rights abuses and other major problems on the global agenda have in common a failure to respect fundamental norms and values developed over millennia.