ZAGREB, 21 March (Hina) - The International Commission for Missing Persons (ICMP) has started its third meeting in Zagreb on Friday. The Commission is to discuss ways to solve the problem of missing persons in the area of former
Yugoslavia behind closed doors.
ZAGREB, 21 March (Hina) - The International Commission for Missing
Persons (ICMP) has started its third meeting in Zagreb on Friday.
The Commission is to discuss ways to solve the problem of
missing persons in the area of former Yugoslavia behind closed
doors. #L#
The meeting, chaired by the former U.S. Secretary of State
Cyrus Vance, is attended by the Croatian Vice Premier Ivica
Kostovic, Bosnia's Foreign Minister Jadranko Prlic, the co-chairman
of the Bosnian Council of Ministers, Haris Silajdzic, the president
of the Republika Srpska Assembly, Dragan Kalinic and the head of
the Yugoslav commission for missing persons, Pavle Todorovic.
Members of the Commission, their advisors and government
representatives will also meet with representatives of associations
gathering the families of missing persons from former Yugoslavia.
The International Commission for Missing Persons was formed in
June 1996 with the aim of helping individuals and groups who are
searching for missing persons from the former Yugoslavia.
The Commission's president is Cyrus Vance and its other
members are the former British foreign minister, Lord Carrington,
the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC),
Cornelio Sommaruga, high OSCE representative for national
minorities, Max van der Stoel, and the former Pakistani foreign
minister Sahabzada Yaqub-Khan.
The ICMP cooperates with ICRC, U.N. High Commission for
Refugees (UNHCR), International Police Task Force (IPTF),
International Stabilization Force (SFOR), U.N. Transitional
Administration in Eastern Slavonia (UNTAES) and other organisations
concerned with the problem of missing persons.
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