The State must support every effort aimed at ascertaining the fate of the missing, strengthen the procedures for investigation, exhumation, and identification, and keep this issue firmly among the priorities of public policy, said Defense Minister Vasilis Palmas, in his speech on behalf of the President of the Republic, during the memorial service and prayer held on Tuesday at the Makedonitissa Tomb - a military cemetery and war memorial in Nicosia - as part of the 41st Marathon of Love for the Missing. Representatives of organizations of relatives of missing persons in Cyprus and Greece, as well as of the Archdiocese, were in attendance.