Liz McManus
Ceist:47 Ms McManus asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the initiative, if any, he will take to help establish the fate of the 1,619 people still missing following the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974. [8927/99]
Vol. 502 No. 6
47 Ms McManus asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the initiative, if any, he will take to help establish the fate of the 1,619 people still missing following the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974. [8927/99]
No further information has become available on this issue since my reply to the Deputy on 17 February. As I indicated in that reply, the question of missing persons is one of the important and sensitive issues which will have to be addressed in the context of the search for an overall political solution to the Cyprus question. In July 1981, a Committee on Missing Persons was established, comprising a representative of each of the two communities on the island and a representative appointed by the UN Secretary General. However, progress proved difficult to achieve.