The Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP) has received a €380,000 contribution from the Republic of Cyprus, bringing the government’s total financial support to the bi‑communal body to €4,772,700 since 2005.
Officials said the funding will support the CMP’s 2026 operations and help advance its humanitarian work to locate, identify and return the remains of missing persons to their families — a process that has provided long‑awaited answers to relatives who have lived with uncertainty for decades.
The CMP was created in April 1981 under United Nations auspices through an agreement between the island’s Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities, following calls in two UN General Assembly resolutions for a mechanism to address the issue of the missing.
Its project on the exhumation, identification and return of remains became operational in 2006. The European Union remains the CMP’s principal financial contributor.
To date, the remains of 1,069 missing persons from both communities have been identified and returned for burial.
The CMP relies on donor funding to carry out its work.
