FAMILIES INSIST ON EXPEDITING SEARCHES FOR MISSING MEMBERS

PRISTINA, Dec 14 (Hina) - The international two-day conference called 'Truth and Peace' wrapped up in Pristina on Saturday evening with participants' appeal to all competent local and international bodies to invest more efforts in searching for several thousand missing persons in Kosovo. #L# Four and a half years since the end of war, 4,000 people are still listed as missing, the participants in the conference said. The Pristina event pooled members of the families of the missing persons and those killed during the war in Croatia, Bosnia- Herzegovina and Macedonia as well representatives of relevant associations from the said countries. Participants also urged the UN Civil Administrator in Kosovo, Harri Holkeri, to speed up the return of bodies of dead Albanians whose corpses were transferred from Kosovo to Serbia in a bid of the then Serbian authorities to cover up crimes committed during the Slobodan Milosevic regime. (hina) ms