The millionth returnee to Bosnia-Herzegovina was registered in July, and UNHCR monthly statistics show that the number of returns by the end of August totalled 1,000,473.
This is possibly the most important step that has been achieved so far in our efforts to normalise the situation in the country after the tragic war, Janz said.
During the 1992-1995 war, 2.2 million people fled or were forced to leave their homes.
Among the million returnees, 440,000 left the country during the war, while 560,000 were internally displaced.
The pace of returns has been uneven, so that three quarters of refugees and displaced persons returned to the Muslim-Croat Federation, while the rest returned to the Serb entity, Republika Srpska.
About 20,000 people returned to the Brcko District, which is a separate administrative area.
Janz said that security problems were not so prominent as they had been before, and that economic issues would have an increasing effect of the quality of life of the returnees in the future.
Despite the results achieved, figures supplied by the UNHCR indicate that Bosnia-Herzegovina permanently lost at least 500,000 citizens who left the country due to the war. These people are believed to have permanently settled their status in third countries and were not planning to return.
Slightly fewer than 100,000 citizens of Bosnia-Herzegovina still have the status of refugees in Serbia and Montenegro, about 3,400 live as refugees in Croatia and about 50,000 in other, mainly European countries.
Nearly 313,000 people have the status of internally displaced persons within Bosnia-Herzegovina.