News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

NICOSIA, 29 March 2017 - The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) wishes to express its sincere thanks to Turkey for its donation of 92,000 EUR made today. This donation brings the Turkish financial assistance to the CMP to a total of EUR 826,000 over the past ten years. This donation to the CMP…

CAMP SAN MARTIN, 30 March 2017 - UNFICYP Force Commander Major General Mohammad Humayun Kabir paid a visit to Sector One on 27 March 2017, where he conducted an inspection of the Sector along with Deputy Chief-of-Staff in charge of Ops Support, Lt. Col. Julian Pemberton Pigott, and other officials…

NICOSIA, 31 March 2017 - The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) wishes to express its sincere thanks to the United Kingdom for its donation of EUR 124,000 made today by H.E. Mr. Matthew Kidd, British High Commissioner to Cyprus, during a visit to the CMP Anthropological Laboratory. This brings…

NICOSIA, 31 March 2017 - One of UNFICYP’s key roles is to resolve incidents in the buffer zone at the lowest level through negotiation; liaison officers, whose main goal is to establish and maintain good relationships with their counterparts to solve the incidents by peaceful means, are among the…

3 April 2017 – On the eve of the International Day for World Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action, Secretary-General António Guterres urged all Governments to remember landmines and explosive remnants of war when discussing peace agreements or when sending urgent humanitarian aid to conflict…

6 April 2017 – United Nations peacekeepers face a raft of challenges – terrorism, hostile host governments, floods of illicit weapons, and sometimes being deployed to places where peace itself is at stake – Secretary-General António Guterres said today, underscoring that all parts of the UN have a…

KYRENIA, 7 April 2017 - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) in Cyprus, Ms. Elizabeth Spehar, visited Kyrenia on 7 April as part of her efforts to engage with civil society across the island. She met with local business people from the tourism, banking, trade, retail and…

Nicosia, 10 April 2017 - The Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus is pleased to announce the signing of two separate Memoranda of Understanding with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Argentinian Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF). Building on a cooperation with the ICRC…

On Friday, 28 April 2017, UNPOL members lined up proudly to receive their UN Peacekeeping Medals from Force Commander Major General Mohammad Humayun Kabir. The Cyprus Police Band was on hand to provide an impressive accompaniment, and a beautiful medley of the national anthems of the countries whose…

On the 1st May the Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) Ms. Elizabeth Spehar joined Trade Union representatives from the Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot communities to celebrate Labour Day at a bi-communal concert “Rock For Peace–Fight For Your Rights”, with the Greek Cypriot…

NICOSIA, 6 May 2017 - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) in Cyprus & Head of UNFICYP, Ms. Elizabeth Spehar, today spent time with PeacePlayers International - Cyprus, enjoying a presentation of the organisation's activities, and later in the afternoon cheering on the youth as…

New York, 11 May 2017 - From 24 April to 5 May, two Cypriot researchers and the 3rd Member of the CMP searched confidential and publicly accessible United Nations archives from the 1963/4 and 1974 periods for information that could aid the discovery of possible burial sites of missing persons. Their…