07-05-2018 07:00
Fact-finding visit to Famagusta, Cyprus: 7-8 May 2018

Famagusta.Abandoned hotels and the beach at Varosha in Famagusta .Northern Cyprus.
FFV Famagusta, Cyprus © EP

The Committee on Petitions conducted a fact-finding visit to Famagusta, Cyprus, on 7-8 May 2018. The purpose of the mission, was to reassess the situation in Famagusta, and in particular Varosha, the sealed-off section of the city, in the context of the follow-up to petition 733/2004, 10 years after the Committee’s previous fact-finding visit to the island, which took place on 25-28 November 2007. The petition was submitted by Loizos Afxentiou on behalf of the Famagusta Refugee Movement.