A/HRC/19/22 cent. The Ledra Street/Lokmaçı crossing point continued to account for the vast majority of crossings by foreigners, primarily tourists. 24. In his 2011 reports on the United Nations operation in Cyprus, 33 the SecretaryGeneral emphasized that the restrictions on the movement of locally employed United Nations civilian personnel regrettably continued, and called upon the Turkish Cypriot authorities to respect the freedom of movement of all United Nations personnel. Furthermore, in view of restrictions reportedly imposed on a journalist working for the Turkish Cypriot newspaper Afrika in May 2011, the South East Europe Media Organisation called upon the Turkish Cypriot authorities to respect the freedom of movement of journalists.34 25. With regard to freedom of residence, nine Maronite families and two Greek Cypriots asked UNFICYP to convey their request to reside permanently in the north. However, these requests remain under consideration by the Turkish Cypriot authorities. 35 D. Property rights 26. According to article 17 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others, and no one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property. 27. On 27 October 2011, the deadline for applications of Greek Cypriots to the Immovable Property Commission, 36 which was 21 December 2011, was extended for a further two years. As at 30 November 2011, a total of 2,453 applications had been lodged with the Commission; 191 of them have been concluded through friendly settlements and seven through formal hearing. The Commission has paid 62,310,510 pounds sterling to the applicants as compensation. Moreover, the Commission has ruled for exchange and compensation in two cases, for restitution in one case and for restitution and compensation in five. In one case, the Commission delivered a decision for restitution after the settlement of the Cyprus issue, and in another case it ruled for partial restitution. 28. Following the Grand Chamber admissibility decision in the case of Demopoulos and others v. Turkey, the European Court of Human Rights declared several applications concerning alleged violations of property rights in the northern part of the island inadmissible for the non-exhaustion of domestic remedies.37 In its Demopoulos decision of 1 March 2010, the Grand Chamber had concluded that Law 67/2005 of December 2005, 33 34 35 36 37 10 S/2011/332, para. 35; S/2011/746, para. 36. See www.seemo.org/activities/pressfreedom/11/press1146.html. S/2011/746, para. 16; information received from UNFICYP. See www.northcyprusipc.org. The Immovable Property Commission was set up under Law No. 67/2005 for the compensation, exchange and restitution of immovable properties following the European Court of Human Rights case of Xenides-Arestis v. Turkey (46347/99), judgement (merits) of 22 December 2005 and judgement (just satisfaction) of 7 December 2006. European Court of Human Rights, Economides and others v. Turkey Decision (68110/01); Stylianou v. Turkey Decision (33574/02); Hatzigeorgiou and others v. Turkey Decision (56446/00); Cacoyanni and others v. Turkey Decision (55254/00); Nicolatos and others v. Turkey Decision (45663/99, 46155/99, 46222/99, 46756/99, 47377/99, 47888/99, 50648/99, 51272/99, 54432/00, 54442/00, 54779/00, 55250/00, 56324/00, 57457/00, 57782/00, 60808/00, 60811/00, 60829/00, 63532/00, 63535/00, 65259/01, 65261/01, 65262/01, 65658/01, 65725/01, 65737/01, 3905/02, 3907/02, 37996/02); Papayianni and others v. Turkey Decision (479/07, 4607/10 and 10715/10); Ioannou Iacovou and others v. Turkey Decision (24506/08, 24730/08, 60758/08); Fieros and others v. Turkey Decision (53432/99, 54086/00, 57899/00, 58378/00, 63518/00, 66141/01, 77752/01, 10192/02, 25057/02, 35846/02); Eleftheriades and others v. Turkey Decision (3882/02, 3883/02, 3887/02, 3884/02, 3896/02); Chrysostomos v. Turkey Decision (66611/09).