$ ON ON MISSING PERSONS ZAGREB, March 22 (Hina) - Croatia expects Belgrade to be exposed to more pressure from international organizations to uncover information about persons who went missing and were detained during the aggression
against Croatia, deputy Prime Minister Ivica Kostovic said in Zagreb on Friday, after talks with an International Committee of the Red Cross (ICTY) U.S. special envoy in charge of missing persons issues, Marc Steinberg.
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ZAGREB, March 22 (Hina) - Croatia expects Belgrade to be exposed to
more pressure from international organizations to uncover
information about persons who went missing and were detained during
the aggression against Croatia, deputy Prime Minister Ivica
Kostovic said in Zagreb on Friday, after talks with an
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICTY) U.S. special envoy
in charge of missing persons issues, Marc Steinberg. #L#
The U.S. government was anxious to see the problem resolved,
and was doing everything in its power, in line with the Dayton
peace accords, to speed up the identification process of missing
persons, Steinberg said, adding that during talks with Kostovic he
had been informed of many new details.
"I will return soon and talk to mothers and other members of
families of missing persons," Steinberg said, describing the step
as one of the most important in resolving the problem.
The fact that Steinberg was based in Sarajevo should not
hinder his help to Croatia, because he could cooperate with
Belgrade from there just as well and could directly contribute to
the liberation of 10 Croatian detainees held by Bosnian Serbs,
Kostovic said.
"We expect those detainees who we are certain to be alive, but
detained, to be liberated within a month," Kostovic said.
Kostovic announced that first information about victims buried
in mass graves in the occupied Croatian Danubian area would be
available in July.
The Croatian government planned to complete the identification
of victims buried in the mass graves in liberated areas by June,
Kostovic added.
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