SARAJEVO, June 18 (Hina) - A special commission established for solving the requests of Bosnian refugees and displaced persons for return, or for the compensation of real-estate, on Wednesday announced their decision on the first
thousand applications out of a total of 20,000 requests submitted.
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SARAJEVO, June 18 (Hina) - A special commission established for solving
the requests of Bosnian refugees and displaced persons for return, or
for the compensation of real-estate, on Wednesday announced their
decision on the first thousand applications out of a total of 20,000
requests submitted. #L#
Recalling that the Commission, founded in line with Annex VII of
the Dayton Agreement, has been operational only six months and that its
task was to solve property issues of almost two million displaced
persons and refugees in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Commission's president Jean-
Pierre Hocke said at a ceremony held at the Bosnian Foreign Ministry
that the decisions were legally binding and that they represented the
basis of all ownership transactions on the market.
The commission, comprising of six Bosnian and three international
experts, had opened offices in Sarajevo, Lukavica, Mostar and, recently,
Brcko, but considering the great number of interested persons, new
offices were expected to be opened, Hocke said.
The Foreign Minister of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Jadranko Prlic,
described the issue of return of property as one of the most sensitive
issues, stressing that it was significant that a joint body was working
on its resolution, in which representatives of all constitutive peoples
in Bosnia were participating.
Prlic warned that the decisions of the Commission were not
automatically practicable because their implementation depended on the
actions of the authorities in the entities.
The Commission should be operational till the year 2000, after
which it would turn into a state body of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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