SUBOTICA, Nov 12 (Hina) - Representatives of associations gathering thefamilies of missing persons from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia andSerbia and Montenegro on Saturday called on the three countries'authorities to cooperate more
closely and step up activities aimed atlocating persons still listed as missing, the Beta news agencyreported.
SUBOTICA, Nov 12 (Hina) - Representatives of associations
gathering the families of missing persons from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and
Serbia and Montenegro on Saturday called on the three countries' authorities to
cooperate more closely and step up activities aimed at locating persons still
listed as missing, the Beta news agency reported. Expressing
readiness for mutual cooperation, representatives of associations of missing
persons, who attended a regional conference on missing persons in Novi Sad,
said there could be no stable peace in the region until all missing persons
were found and war criminals punished.
Around 40,000 people went missing in the wars in the former Yugoslavia,
and the fate of some 20,000 missing persons is still not known, it was said at
the conference.
The eighth regional conference on missing persons was organised by the
International Commission for Missing Persons (ICMP), which is based in
Sarajevo.