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8 June 2011: The British Minister for Europe The Rt Hon David Lidington visited the headquarters of the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) in Sarajevo today as part his two-day visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina, praising the organization’s support to international and regional justice.
Accompanied by ICMP’s Director-General Ms. Kathryne Bomberger and the British Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina, H.E. Mr. Michael Tatham, the UK’s Minister for Europe received briefings on ICMP’s assistance to governments worldwide, and toured the organizations’ main laboratory where ICMP performs DNA extraction and genetic profiling of samples from mortal remains and of blood samples from surviving relatives.
“The International Commission on Missing Persons has applied a revolutionary and successful approach to resolving the fate of those missing from the wars in the Western Balkans and the United Kingdom is proud of its support for these efforts. ICMP’s approach has been successful not only in identifying a vast number of missing persons, but in ensuring that justice is served for the perpetrators of war crimes”, British Minister for Europe The Rt Hon David Lidington said during the visit.
“The use of DNA technology and forensic science in identifying the missing has returned mortal remains to surviving families and played an integral role in documenting war crimes. The financial and political support of the United Kingdom to ICMP in this process has been immeasurable. The visit of Mr. Lidington is an excellent example of this support and we are very grateful”, ICMP Director General Kathryne Bomberger said during the visit.
The United Kingdom has supported ICMP since the year 2000 with grants of over 2,5 million GBP that have focused on the development of Bosnia’s capacity to address the missing persons issue at the level of the state, including support to international and regional judicial processes and the establishment of the Missing Persons Institute. UK funding has also assisted ICMP’s operations in Colombia and Iraq.
ICMP’s worldwide operations include the provision of assistance to the governments of the Western Balkans, Iraq, the Philippines, Chile and Colombia, as well as assistance to Kuwait, Norway, Thailand and South Africa. Of the 40,000 people estimated missing from the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, ICMP has identified 16,198 since 2001 using DNA-assisted techniques, in Bosnia alone 13,550. Of this number of identifications 6,595 are victims of the 1995 fall of Srebrenica.[:bs]
Ministar za evropska pitanja Velike Britanije David Lidington u sklopu dvodnevne posjete Bosni i Hercegovini posjetio je danas sjedište Međunarodne komisije za nestale osobe (ICMP) u Sarajevu, te pohvalio njenu podršku uspostavljanju međunarodne i regionalne pravde.
U pratnji Kathryne Bomberger, generalne direktorice ICMP-a, i Michaela Tathama, britanskog ambasadora u BiH, ministar Lidington je informisan o ICMP-ovoj podršci koju pruža vladama širom svijeta. Britanski ministar je obišao i glavnu ICMP-ovu laboratoriju gdje se vrši ekstrakcija DNK i genetičko profiliranje uzoraka iz posmrtnih ostataka i uzoraka krvi preživjelih srodnika.
„Međunarodna komisija za nestale osobe je primijenila revolucionaran i uspješan pristup rješavanju sudbine nestalih osoba tokom ratova na području Zapadnog Balkana i Velika Britanija je ponosna na svoju dosadašnju podršku ovim nastojanjima. ICMP nije postigao samo uspjeh u identifikaciji ogromnog broja nestalih osoba, nego i u zadovoljenju pravde za počionioce ratnih zločina“, izjavio je tokom posjete David Lidington, britanski ministar za evropska pitanja.
„Upotreba tehnologije DNK i forenzičkih nauka u identifikaciji nestalih je omogućila vraćanje posmrtnih ostataka preživjelim srodnicima i odigrala ključnu ulogu u dokumentovanju ratnih zločina. Finansijska i politička podrška Velike Britanije ICMP-u u ovom procesu je nemjerljiva. Posjeta gospodina Lidingtona je najbolji primjer ove podrške i mi smo na tome zahvalni“, kazala je Kathryne Bomberger, generalna direktorica ICMP-a.
Velika Britanija od 2000. godine podržava rad ICMP kroz grantove u iznosu većem od 2,5 miliona funti koji su usmjereni na razvoj kapaciteta BiH za rješavanje pitanja nestalih osoba na nivou države, na podršku međunarodnim i regionalnim sudskim procesima i uspostavi Instituta za nestale osobe BiH. Finansijska pomoć Velike Britanije pomaže rad ICMP-a u Kolumbiji i Iraku.
ICMP-ove aktivnosti širom svijeta uključuju pružanje pomoći vladama Zapadnog Balkana, Iraka, Filipina, Čilea i Kolumbije, kao i i Kuvajtu, Norveškoj, Tajlandu i Južnoj Africi. Od oko 40.000 nestalih osoba nakon sukoba na području bivše Jugoslavije, ICMP je uz pomoć analize DNK od novembra 2001. godine identifikovao 16.198 osoba. ICMP je u BiH identifikovao 13.550 osoba, od čega 6.595 žrtava nestalih tokom pada Srebrenice u julu 1995. godine.[:ar][:es][:]
