CONFERENCE ON MISSING ADOPTS APPEAL ON CLOSING DOWN PRISONS

OSIJEK, Dec 15 (Hina) - Participants in a two-day conference on missing persons, which opened in the eastern Croatian town of Osijek on Monday - called on Croatia, Yugoslavia, Bosnia- Herzegovina, Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Republika Srpska to close down all prisons and camps with registered and unregistered prisoners. The Osijek conference was organised by the International Commission for Missing Persons (ICMP). The text of the joint appeal, adopted at Tuesday's session, calls on international organisations in charge of implementation of the Dayton agreement, to secure a consistent implementation of the meeting's conclusion by exerting pressure on the governments of the said countries and to punish those failing to implement it. At a press conference held in Osijek today, the families of missing and imprisoned persons, who attended the meeting, requested the ICMP to form its sub-commissions for Croatia and Yugoslavia. It was said that the next meeting of the associations of families of missing and imprisoned people in Croatia and Yugoslavia would be held in Belgrade after the upcoming holidays. (hina) mm rml