The President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, accompanied by his daughter Laura, arrived at the General Command of the United Nations peacekeeping force in Cyprus, near the Nicosia buffer zone.
Present to welcome the Italian delegation was the Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations and Head of the peacekeeping force in Cyprus, Colin Steward.
After the visit and the meeting with the UN representative, the president will go to the Committee for Missing Persons where he will visit the anthropological laboratory of the institute.
During the morning the president will also visit the old Nicosia airport, bombed in 1974 and remaining unchanged since then.
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