Cyprus President Glafcos Clerides has assured that his government would continue supporting a dialogue with the Turkish Cypriot side on the humanitarian issue of missing persons in Cyprus, as was its original initiative, the official Cyprus News Agency reported Sunday.
During his speech, read by Presidential Commissioner for Humanitarian Issues Takis Christopoulos, at a special ceremony to honor those killed during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974 and the missing persons, President Clerides restated the government's commitment that "a solution to the issue of missing persons is a high priority issue" to the government of Cyprus.
He added that the issue of missing persons "has always been a clearly humanitarian one to us," and it is within the framework of this approach "that we initiated last December a meeting with (Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf) Denktash to discuss especially the issue of missing persons."
He conveyed, "this initiative is ongoing and we will continue to support it." (Albawaba.com)
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