Representatives of the Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian commissions for missing persons said that the victims were killed in the 1990s war. Fifteen years ago, their bodies were brought by the Danube and the Sava to Belgrade. It is believed that the remains belong to missing Croats, Bosniaks and Serbs.
The head of the Croatian Commission for Missing Persons, Ivan Grujic, said that the process of exhumation had been carried out very professionally. He added that similar exhumations had been recently completed in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Grujic was hopeful that exhumations would continue at a faster pace in order to enable the settlement of the issue of missing persons.
The Croatian official and his Serbian and Bosnian counterparts, Veljko Odalovic and Marko Jurisic, underlined the importance of cooperation in all locations believed to hide the bodies of missing persons.
Representatives of the International Commission for Missing Persons (ICMP) said that in the last seven days they had been assisting in selecting and collecting bone samples to be used in the process of identification by DNA analysis.
The exhumations at Belgrade's Nova Bezanija and Orlovaca cemeteries had started on November 21.