SARAJEVO, Dec 4 (Hina) - The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Bosnia-Herzegovina said on Tuesday that a significant and encouraging increase in the number of minority returns to the country had been
registered this year. According to the UNHCR, in this year's first ten months a total of 66,856 people who belong to the category of "minority returnees", that is, people whose ethnic group is in minority in a certain region, had returned to their pre-war homes. The number of returnees is by almost 21,000 larger than in 2000, which indicates significant progress in the implementation of Annex VII of the Dayton Agreement, UNHCR's regional coordinator for Southeast Europe, Werner Blatter, said. During the year, 30,100 Bosniaks, 7,190 Croats and 28,750 Serbs returned to parts of the country in which they represent the ethnic minority. Since 1999 a total of 175,300 refugees and displaced pe
SARAJEVO, Dec 4 (Hina) - The Office of the UN High Commissioner for
Refugees (UNHCR) in Bosnia-Herzegovina said on Tuesday that a
significant and encouraging increase in the number of minority
returns to the country had been registered this year.
According to the UNHCR, in this year's first ten months a total of
66,856 people who belong to the category of "minority returnees",
that is, people whose ethnic group is in minority in a certain
region, had returned to their pre-war homes.
The number of returnees is by almost 21,000 larger than in 2000,
which indicates significant progress in the implementation of
Annex VII of the Dayton Agreement, UNHCR's regional coordinator for
Southeast Europe, Werner Blatter, said.
During the year, 30,100 Bosniaks, 7,190 Croats and 28,750 Serbs
returned to parts of the country in which they represent the ethnic
minority.
Since 1999 a total of 175,300 refugees and displaced persons have
returned to their pre-war homes in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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