Fotiou: “of Crucial importance the next few days for the presence of bone E/k in Άσσια”

Always in connection with the confirmation of the information for existence of a… point in the wider area of Άσσιας, where at the beginning of the 1990s have moved the bones of Greek-cypriot missing persons.
This was stated today by the Commissioner of the Presidency for Humanitarian Issues, Fotis Fotiou, who met with the President and a delegation of the Community Council of the occupied Άσσιας.
After the meeting, mr Fotiou said that was discussed, and the last information given by the newspaper “P” with respect to the testimony Τουρκοκυπρίου “and that I have an assurance -and this is the official position of the Republic of Cyprus – is that we ask our representative in the Committee on Missing persons (CMP) to put directly on this issue, if possible in the next session”.
The Commissioner also assured that “it will be all that you need, all the processes directly, so that this issue be investigated and if necessary, to be immediately excavation in this area has been indicated”.
He said that “such cases must be investigated as soon as why don’t we have to give hope to the relatives if the situation is not confirmed,” and recommended to everyone “to be careful”.
Mr Fotiou appealed “to all, and especially to the relatives, to be patient”, saying that “the next few days will be crucial for this development and certainly the wish of all of us is to confirm the information because, if confirmed, particularly for those people, it will be a great positive development, and for dozens of families will be a positive development if you find where they moved the bones”.
He said the facts confirm that “ the appeal of the President of the Republic with the T/c leader has positive results and it is clear now that some T/k, and it’s not just this case, it is other, and E/k, visit us or communicate with us, they want to give information, and this really is the most positive thing we could have after 42 years on this painful issue of missing persons”.
And the appeal, continued the Commissioner, “is to continue this effort in order to facilitate the work of the Commission of Inquiry why if at this time we have the refusal of the Turks to take the information from their files the other way to get information is from witnesses and informants, so you can understand why it is very crucial that this development”.
Mr Fotiou said that “we have discussed it, of course, and matters concerning the forthcoming session of the Committee of Ministers in Strasbourg, which is a very serious preparation of our side, both in technocratic and diplomatic level, and we hoped that with the arguments we have we will still win a diplomatic battle because the law is with us.”
“Can’t the Turkey refuses even after 42 years of not giving information from the army records regarding the collections in the battlefields because there is the mass of the missing persons, there are the mass graves, which are in the fighting around Kyrenia,” said the Commissioner, noting that “this is the great issue to don’t forget that still we are talking about 900 to 1000 missing persons, which has not been verified yet their fate”.
The President of the Community Council Άσσιας, George John expressed the expectation “that information given to us through publications and elsewhere to be real so that to put an end to this torture for all the families of the missing.”
Thank, finally, the Commissioner of the Presidency for Humanitarian Issues, “all of these sincere efforts made to find the ηρωομαρτύρων us”.
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