According to requests filed by the families of missing people, another 25,000 people are still missing, but according to assessments the authorities are searching for a total 35,000 to 40,000 people who went missing in the former Yugoslavia, ICMP director for relations with government's Jeffrey Buenger said.
Representatives of this international organisation informed Croatian reporters of their activities in Croatia and a joint project on the identification of missing people conducted together with the Croatian government.
The first part of the project, namely collecting blood samples from the relatives of missing people, was completed late last year, and the second part, namely comparing those blood samples with bones discovered in mass graves on the territory of other countries, should be completed in September 2005.
Cooperation with the Croatian Government is very good, Buenger said.
The ICMP was founded in 1996 in Lyone, France at the summit of the G8 Group.