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Press Releases and Statements

19 May 2025 - Call for nominations to join the Independent Institution’s first Advisory Board

10 February 2025 - Supporting a Syrian Path to Truth: Landmark Visit of the Independent Institution on Missing Persons in Syria to Damascus

28 January 2025 - Karla Quintana, Head of IIMP: Speech at EU Parliament Panel on “Syria: Exchange of views on truth, justice and accountability”

21 January 2025 - Statement by Karla Quintana, Assistant Secretary-General, Head of the Independent Institution on Missing Persons in the Syrian Arab Republic 

19 December 2024 - Secretary-General appoints Ms. Karla Quintana of Mexico as Head of the Independent Institution on Missing Persons in the Syrian Arab Republic

12 December 2024 - Statement: Families must be at the center of the search for the missing

Media and press features 

7 May 2025 - "Missing persons and the developments in finding their whereabouts with the Head of the Independent Institution" - Syria TV interview with Ms. Karla Quintana, Head of the Independent Institution 

6 May 2025 - "We are asking the interim authorities to have an office in Syria. When we search for the missing, we need to be in the field. We are looking for every missing person regardless of nationality, religion, reason for disappearance, and who took them." - UN News interview with Ms. Karla Quintana, Head of the Independent Institution 

24 April 2025 - "Looking for the missing in Syria: 'It’s Titanic, but we are moving' - Justice Info. interview with Ms. Karla Quintana, Head of the Independent Institution 

9 March 2025 - Tayf Radio interview with Ms. Karla Quintana, Head of the Independent Institution 

24 February 2025 - "We are working with Syrian authorities and civil society organisations to search for missing persons" - Al Qahira TV interview with Ms. Karla Quintana, Head of the Independent Institution 

Stories 

12  February 2025 - Photo Story: Supporting the Syrian Path to Truth: The Independent Institution is in Damascus