Kebo told reporters that there was full consent that efforts and funds should be invested in creating conditions for sustainable return and permanent stay of returnees when they came back to their pre-war homes.
The funds totalling about 50 million euros for this purpose will be ensured by Bosnian authorities and international organisations, including the European Commission, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), and the Dutch government.
Special attention will be directed this year to areas where little progress has been so far in the return of refugees, such as eastern Bosnia, eastern Herzegovina, Posavina and the area of Livno in western Bosnia, Kebo told reporters.
According to figures released by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), since the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords in January 1996, about 1,600,000 refugees and displaced persons have returned to their pre-war homes in Bosnia.
Approximately 400,000 Bosnians are still living outside their country.
Of the aforementioned number of returnees, over 440,000 returned from abroad, while some 565,000 are returnees who were displaced inside the country during the war.
The number of Bosniak (Bosnian Mulslim) returnees from aboard came to almost 280,000.
Nearly 85,000 Croats returned from abroad, and the number of Serb returnees from other countries is about 72,000.