AKEL visits the Committee on Missing Persons on the occasion of the Cyprus Missing Persons Day
29 October 2025, AKEL C.C. Press Office, Nicosia
On the occasion of the Cyprus Missing Persons Day, an AKEL delegation, headed by General Secretary Stefanos Stefanou, visited the premises of the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) today.
The General Secretary of AKEL congratulated the CMP scientists for their excellent work in determining the fate of missing persons, emphasizing AKEL’s long-standing and consistent support for the Commission’s work. St.Stefanou pointed out that AKEL will continue to support the CMP both in Cyprus and in the European Parliament in order to secure the necessary means for the continuation of its important humanitarian work.
At the same time, the General Secretary of AKEL sent a message to the relatives of the missing persons, assuring them that AKEL will continue its efforts. He stressed that it is the right of families to know the fate of their loved ones and to have their remains returned to them so that they can bury them with the proper honors.
Finally, Stefanos Stefanou referred to a letter from AKEL MEP Giorgos Georgiou to the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, regarding the proposal to create a monument for the missing persons. He stressed AKEL’s long-standing position that this monument should commemorate all missing Cypriots, both Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, who went missing as a result of the intercommunal clashes of 1963-64 or the Turkish invasion of 1974. As the General Secretary of AKEL characteristically stated: “The pain is common, the tragedy at this level is shared.”
The AKEL delegation also included the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Refugees and Missing Persons, Nicos Kettros and Christos Christofides, respectively, the General Secretary of POGO, Skevi Koukouma, and the members of the Central Committee of AKEL, Stavri Kalopsidiotou, Elias Dimitriou, and Giorgos Vassiliou.
