Ireland has today confirmed a donation of €25,000 to the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP)

Ambassador Nicholas Twist and Ms Tiziana Zennaro, Programme Manager, UNDP Partnership for the Future Programme-Cyprus signed today (02/11/2015) the agreement between the Government of Ireland and UNDP of the Donation of €25.000 for “Support to the Committee on Missing Persons Project on Exhumation, Identification and Return of remains of missing persons in Cyprus, Multi-Donor".

Ireland greatly appreciates the work of CMP in restoring loved ones to their families so that they may be mourned appropriately. The time factor is crucial to this work as sites deteriorate and both witnesses to events and relatives of the missing grow older and pass away. CMP fulfils a vital humanitarian role in Cyprus, both by its results and its working methods, employing experts from both communities and searching for the missing of both communities.