$ IN BELGRADE BELGRADE, 6 July (Hina) - A two-day meeting of Croatian and Yugoslav experts on missing and imprisoned persons ended in Belgrade on Saturday. The two sides have reached agreement on several issues and the implementation
of those agreements should provide answers as to the destinies of missing and imprisoned persons. The Croatian side has received information on eight missing persons (all of them are dead), and the families of those persons have already been informed about that.
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BELGRADE, 6 July (Hina) - A two-day meeting of Croatian and
Yugoslav experts on missing and imprisoned persons ended in
Belgrade on Saturday.
The two sides have reached agreement on several issues and the
implementation of those agreements should provide answers as to the
destinies of missing and imprisoned persons.
The Croatian side has received information on eight missing
persons (all of them are dead), and the families of those persons
have already been informed about that. #L#
The secretary of the Yugoslav commission, Maksim Korac, said
that Croatia had provided 11 answers the Yugoslav side had
demanded. The information related to persons who were living on the
territory of Croatia as free citizens, Korac added.
The head of the Croatian commission, Ivan Grujic, said that
the results of the two commissions were positive, but also
expressed dissatisfaction with the small number of answers provided
by the Yugoslav side. So far, the Croatian commission had not
received a single piece of information on living Croat prisoners,
Grujic said.
The Yugoslav side claims that it holds no more prisoners of
war after the Nemetin exchange. They claim that those who are being
held prisoners are charged with terrorism, espionage and other
criminal acts.
The two sides have agreed that by 20 August, both commissions
should exchange lists with the names of all persons they hold
prisoners, who are wanted by the two sides.
'After the exchange of those lists, no manipulations will be
possible any more', Grujic said, adding that the exchange would be
followed by the release of those persons.
By 30 September, the two sides will exchange the lists with
the names of persons who are being held prisoners and are not on
search lists.
Documents necessary for the identification of persons killed
in conflicts on the territory of former Yugoslavia would be
presented by 15 September, in the presence of forensic experts,
Grujic said, adding that several thousand cases could be solved in
that way.
Progress is expected already on 9 July, at a meeting which is
to be held in Sarajevo and which will for the first time be
attended by the representatives of 'The Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia'. The Yugoslav side had promised to exert influence on
the Bosnian Serbs to release the Croatian air force pilot Rudolf
Perisin, who had been captured in the area of Bosanska Posavina,
Grujic said. The Croatian side would also demand from the Bosnian
Serbs to provide information on soldiers who had gone missing
during the liberation of Croatia in 1995, Grujic said.
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