Croatia has been requesting Serbia to provide it with information on those who went missing during the Homeland Defence War in areas that used to be controlled by Serb rebels, while Belgrade insists on the return of Serbs who fled Croatia after Operation Storm in August 1995 when Zagreb liberated those areas.
During his stay in Zagreb, PM Vucic also held talks with Foreign Minister Vesna Pusic on what he described as "a portfolio of outstanding issues."
"We have discussed missing persons and refugees, and no one is avoiding those issues," Vucic told reporters asking them if they knew that the list of missing persons "contains more Serbs than Croats".
Vucic said that he was hopeful that President Grabar Kitarovic and Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic would also try to solve those issues.
In mid-December 2014 when the Croatian Ministry of Veterans' Affairs organised at the Zagreb Forensics Institute the identification of the remains of 20 people exhumed from individual and common graves after they were killed in 1991/92 and 1995, it stated that that 1,600 people gone missing during the 1990s war conflicts remained unaccounted for.
Recently, before the International Court of Justice delivered a verdict on Croatia's genocide suit against Serbia and Serbia's counterclaim, it was stated that one of Croatia's priorities was to establish what happened to 865 missing Croatian citizens whose fate has not been known since the war.