GENEVA, April 3 (Hina) - Unknown whereabouts of almost 30,000 missing persons in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina pose difficulties in the normalization of life because people cannot easily forget the war and atrocities as yet unseen in
the modern European history, Croatian Ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Neven Madey, said on Wednesday.
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GENEVA, April 3 (Hina) - Unknown whereabouts of almost 30,000
missing persons in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina pose difficulties
in the normalization of life because people cannot easily forget
the war and atrocities as yet unseen in the modern European
history, Croatian Ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Neven Madey, said
on Wednesday. #L#
Speaking of the problem of missing and detained persons before
the Commission for Human Rights which on 26 April concludes its
six-week session, Madey said that there were 2,800 cases of missing
persons in Croatia and about 28,000 in Bosnia-Herzegovina waiting
to be solved.
The Croatian government supported the suggestion of a UN
expert on human rights, Manfred Nowak, in the establishment of a
multilateral commission for a quicker exchange of information about
missing persons, Madey said.
Croatia supported the idea that the Commission for Human
Rights gives more importance to the problem and sets up effective
mechanisms for resolving the huge humanitarian problem so as to
find out the whereabouts of missing persons in Croatia and Bosnia-
Herzegovina, Madey said.
Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina have prepared a joint
resolution on the problem of missing and detained persons for the
session.
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