ZAGREB, July 3 (Hina) - Head of an International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) delegation, Alex Braunwalder, on Wednesday expressed hope that light would be shed on the whereabouts of persons missing since 1991, especially after a
meeting between Croatian and Yugoslav commissions for tracing missing persons which is to take place in Belgrade next week.
ZAGREB, July 3 (Hina) - Head of an International Committee of the
Red Cross (ICRC) delegation, Alex Braunwalder, on Wednesday
expressed hope that light would be shed on the whereabouts of
persons missing since 1991, especially after a meeting between
Croatian and Yugoslav commissions for tracing missing persons which
is to take place in Belgrade next week. #L#
At Wednesday's meeting of the Centre for the Protection of the
Rights of Missing and Detained Croatians and Their Families, called
"Appeal", with representatives of foreign embassies in Croatia,
"Appeal" members reiterated their plea to the international
community to help in the search for 2686 missing Croatian citizens,
as well as citizens of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
During the meeting, Braunwalder said that the G-7 group would
soon establish a "Blue Tape" commission which would attempt to
resolve the problem of tracing missing persons in successor
countries of the former Yugoslavia, at the highest state level.
"Appeal" representatives distributed to the representatives of
foreign countries a written appeal which asked that all "detained
and convicted" persons, who were in camps and prisons in Yugoslavia
and the Serb entity in Bosnia, be released immediately, that the
international community increases pressure on Milosevic so that
light could be shed on the whereabouts of the missing persons and
that access be permitted to Yugoslav documents in Belgrade in order
to obtain information about persons who had been killed and the
location of their burial.
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