BELGRADE, Nov 7 (Hina) - The heads of Yugoslav and Croatian governments' offices for missing persons ended a two-day meeting in Belgrade on Wednesday, assessing great progress was achieved. The head of the Croatian government office
for missing persons, Ivan Grujic, and the chairman of the Yugoslav commission for humanitarian issues and missing persons, Maksim Korac, reached an agreement that they would introcude mutual monitoring in all future activities, which, Grujic stressed, was a reflection of mutual trust. At the meeting, the Yugoslav side handed over to Croatia 24 protocols with information about unidentified bodies which were washed downstream in the Danube River to Novi Sad during the war in Croatia. Croatia requested that the remains, buried in Novi Sad, be handed over. The process of identification through DNA analysis could be completed within two months, Grujic said. Korac expects that the
BELGRADE, Nov 7 (Hina) - The heads of Yugoslav and Croatian
governments' offices for missing persons ended a two-day meeting in
Belgrade on Wednesday, assessing great progress was achieved.
The head of the Croatian government office for missing persons,
Ivan Grujic, and the chairman of the Yugoslav commission for
humanitarian issues and missing persons, Maksim Korac, reached an
agreement that they would introcude mutual monitoring in all future
activities, which, Grujic stressed, was a reflection of mutual
trust.
At the meeting, the Yugoslav side handed over to Croatia 24
protocols with information about unidentified bodies which were
washed downstream in the Danube River to Novi Sad during the war in
Croatia.
Croatia requested that the remains, buried in Novi Sad, be handed
over. The process of identification through DNA analysis could be
completed within two months, Grujic said.
Korac expects that the remains of about 300 people exhumed from a
cemetery in Knin would be identified soon. Grujic confirmed the
identification process was underway, and added that competent
institutions in Croatia would need the help of the families of
missing persons in the process of identification of the exhumed
remains.
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