Pierre Guberan who has been the member of the Missing Persons Committee for the last 20 years, following his retirement will leave the island on 22 December 2005.

Third member of the Autonomous Missing Persons Committee Pierre Guberan stated that some of the missing persons would never be found due to various reasons. He pointed out that the relatives of the missing persons should be ready for this.

Stressing that the biggest problem on the Missing Persons issue, which was one of the most complex and sensitive issues of the Cyprus problem, was its politicization, Guberan said, the Greek Cypriot side was politicizing the issue internationally in order to show that Turkey was responsible and to use it internally for receiving votes.

Guberan indicating that the missing persons issue, for many years, has been related to the arrival of Turkish troops to the island in 1974, said but, the problem has started in 1963.

Referring to rumors, to the effect that there were Greek Cypriots being hidden in prisons in Turkey Guberan said he never thought that Turkey would have such a policy of hiding people.

Guberan stated that Anthropology Centre, which would make identity identification from DNA would start its studies in 2006 Spring.

Guberan stressed that, in the Autumn of 2006, he thought there would be some people who would take the bones of their relatives in order to burry.

According to Greek Cypriot daily Politis, following the USA decision to ban the use of American weapons in Cyprus, the Greek Cypriot administration had decided to purchase new weapons and stop using M 48 tanks (USA origin) and cannons with 155 calibre. It was reported that the money devoted from the budget for purchasing tanks and cannons increased to 90 million Cyprus Pounds (CYP).

According to the article entitled "100 Million CYP For Armament" published in Politis, cost of purchasing only new tanks and cannons would be more than 100 Million CYP.