A/HRC/13/42* page 39 affected both communities living on the island, Greek and Turkish Cypriots alike. The United Nations has long been engaged in the various processes for resolution of both the Cyprus problem135 and the question of missing persons.136 In 1975, the Commission on Human Rights called for the intensification of efforts aimed at tracing and accounting for missing persons,137 a call echoed by the General Assembly in its resolution 3450 (XXX), in which it also requested the Secretary-General to make every effort for the accomplishment of the same objective through close cooperation with ICRC. 85. Notwithstanding the above-mentioned calls and the one for the establishment of an investigatory body under the chair of ICRC,138 the question of missing persons remained at a deadlock until 1981. In its first report, the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances included Cyprus in its country survey, but decided not to provide an analysis of the situation because of the delicate and complex nature of the question.139 In 1981, an agreement between the two communities was reached under the auspices of the United Nations, by which the Committee on Missing Persons was created.140 Its mandate is solely to establish the fate of the missing persons. In this regard, 502 cases of Turkish Cypriots and 1493 of Greek Cypriots have been officially reported to it as missing. Despite the position of the Working Group that its role was to assist the Committee,141 the Committee’s function remained at a standstill. A 31 July 1997 agreement between the leaders of the two communities to provide each other all information at their disposal on the location of graves did not yield any practical result.142 Finally, following a change of political stance by both communities, the Committee resumed its work in 2004. To date, 585 exhumations and 196 identifications have been made.143 86. The question of missing persons arising out of the Cyprus context has reached the European Court of Human Rights in various instances. The cases of the disappearance of two 135 General Assembly resolution 3212 (XXIX). 136 See for example General Assembly resolutions 3450 (XXX), 32/128, 33/172, 34/164 and 37/181. 137 Commission on Human Rights resolution 4 (XXXI). 138 General Assembly resolutions 32/128 and 33/172. 139 E/CN.4/1435, para. 79. 140 See the statement of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Cyprus (E/CN.4/1492), para. 65. 141 E/CN.4/1983/14, para. 46. 142 Committee on Missing Persons, press release, available from www.cmpcyprus.org/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=1353. 143 Committee on Missing Persons, www.cmpcyprus.org/media/attachments/Quick%20Statistics/Quick_Statistics_30.12.09.pdf.