Missing persons committee still has huge task ahead

Three hundred locations have been identified and are awaiting excavation, Greek Cypriot representative on the committee on missing persons (CMP) Leonidas Pantelides said on Wednesday. In all, 900 cases are still open and pending, Pantelides told the CyBC, with most locations marked for excavation falling in the north, and seven crews conducting the work, with some discussion underway on increasing their number. “There is a huge job still ahead,” Pantelides said, noting that it is natural for the cases currently being looked into to be the most difficult ones left. The passage of time, Pantelides explained, affects the sharpness of…