Resolving the fate of missing persons is not only a legal obligation under international humanitarian law, but a moral imperative and a precondition for peace, the Permanent Representative of Cyprus to the United Nations, Ambassador Maria Michael, said on Thursday. In her intervention during a discussion at the UN Security Council, in New York, about a resolution on missing persons in armed conflict, the Ambassador also said that Turkey “failed to take measures to prevent disappearances during its illegal invasion of the island and continues to this day to refuse accountability or to provide families with information.” She was referring to Turkey’s 1974 illegal invasion and occupation ever since of the northern part of the Republic of Cyprus.