SUBOTICA, Nov 11 (Hina) - Serbia and Montenegro wants Croatia toestablish what happened with 418 citizens of Serbia and Montenegro,while in Bosnia-Herzegovina 108 citizens of Serbia and Montenegro arelisted as missing, the country's
human and minority rights minister,Rasim Ljajic, said at a regional conference on missing persons in thenorthern city of Novi Sad on Friday.
SUBOTICA, Nov 11 (Hina) - Serbia and Montenegro wants Croatia to
establish what happened with 418 citizens of Serbia and Montenegro, while in
Bosnia-Herzegovina 108 citizens of Serbia and Montenegro are listed as missing,
the country's human and minority rights minister, Rasim Ljajic, said at a
regional conference on missing persons in the northern city of Novi Sad on
Friday. According to Ljajic, the commission for missing persons has
exhumed the remains of 1,426 people in Serbia and Montenegro, of whom 918 have
been identified.
Ljajic said that 5,800 people went missing during the war in Kosovo.
Currently 1,800 Albanians and 750 non-Albanians are listed missing.
The Belgrade-based Beta agency reported that the Novi Sad conference
was organised by the International Commission for Missing Persons (ICMP), whose
main offices are in Sarajevo. The ICMP chairwoman, Kathryne Bomberger, said
the aim of such conferences was to establish links between associations
gathering the families of missing persons in the region and thus facilitate the
search for missing people.