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Following a two-day meeting organized by the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) on 15 and 16 October in Bosnia and Herzegovina, representatives of the BiH Missing Persons Institute, Administration on Detainees and Missing Persons of the Republic of Croatia and the Government Commission on Missing Persons of the Republic of Serbia agreed upon future steps to create a regional list of missing persons. Nakon dvodnevnog sastanaka održanog 15. i 16.10.2012. godine u Bosni i Hercegovini u organizaciji Međunarodne komisije za nestale osobe (ICMP), predstavnici Instituta za nestale osobe BiH, Povjerenstva Vlade Republike Hrvatske za zatočene i nestale i Komisije za nestala lica Vlade Republike Srbije postigli su dogovor o daljim koracima u kreiranju regionalne liste nestalih osoba/lica.
Representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) also participated in the meeting.
It is estimated that 40,000 persons went missing as a consequence of the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia. Of that number an estimated 30,000 persons went missing in BiH, around 6,500 persons went missing from the Croatia conflict and an estimated 4,500 persons went missing from the Kosovo conflict. Today 70 % of the 40,000 persons who went missing from the regional conflict have been accounted for.
Representatives of government commissions also discussed the status of bilateral agreements on resolving missing persons cases between Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republic of Croatia and Republic of Serbia, concluding that these agreements would accelerate addressing the issue of missing persons in the region.
It was noted that successful cooperation between relevant institutions of the three countries has resulted in resolving more than 400 cases of joint interest, which could not have been resolved in any other way. As the part of the Joint Identification Project of the Republic of Croatia and ICMP more than 400 additional cases have been solved.
“I am very pleased with the implementation of the joint identification project that resulted in a large number of resolved cases and I hope that we will continue working on its improvement”, said Ivan Grujic, Chairperson of Administration for Detained and Missing Persons of the Republic of Croatia. Mr. Grujic believes that the regional list of missing persons will be an important tool in the search process and that it would contribute to resolving current situation in regard to missing persons issue.
Mr. Amor Masovic, member of the Board of Directors of the BiH Missing Persons Institute said that he is confident that signing agreements on cooperation between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republic of Croatia as well as Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republic of Serbia “will improve the process of joint exhumations and lead us to resolution of even larger number of missing persons cases in the region”.
“I am pleased to say that the same working methodology and transparency in dealing with cases of joint interest have positive results and I believe that such an approach should be applied to other issues related to missing persons issue”, said Ms. Zorica Avramovic, representative of the Government Commission on Missing Persons of the Republic of Serbia.
The next working meeting is scheduled to take place before the end of 2012.
ICMP works globally to ensure the cooperation of governments and other authorities in locating and identifying missing persons as a result of armed conflict, human rights abuses, disasters and other causes.
Predstavnici Međunarodnog komiteta Crvenog križa/krsta (MKCK) također su učestvovali u ovom sastanku.
Procijenjuje se da je 40,000 osoba nestalo kao posljedica sukoba u bivšoj Jugoslaviji. Od ovog broja, procijenjuje se da je 30,000 osoba nestalo u BiH; oko 6,500 tokom sukoba u Republici Hrvatskoj i oko 4,500 tokom sukoba na Kosovu. Danas, 70% od 40,000 osoba koje su nestale tokom sukoba u Regionu su pronađene.
Predstavnici vladinih tijela razgovarali su i o statusu bilateralnih sporazuma o saradnji u rješavanju pitanja nestalih osoba između BiH, Republike Hrvatske i Republike Srbije, te zaključili da bi potpisivanje ovih sporazuma pomoglo ubrzanju rješavanja pitanja nestalih osoba/lica u Regionu.
Kako je rečeno na sastanku, dosadašnja uspješna saradnja među tijelima ove tri države rezultirala je rješavanjem preko 400 slučajeva od zajedničkog interesa, koji ne bi mogli biti riješeni na drugi način. U okviru Zajedničkog projekta identifikacija između Republike Hrvatske i ICMP-a riješeno je dodatnih 400 slučajeva.
„Izuzetno sam zadovoljan provođenjem projekta zajedničkih identifikacija kroz koji je riješen veliki broj slučajeva i nadam se da ćemo i dalje raditi na njegovom unapređenju“, kazao je Ivan Grujić, predsjednik Povjerenstva Vlade Republike Hrvatske za zatočene i nestale osobe. G. Grujić smatra da će regionalna lista nestalih, o kojoj je postignut dogovor, biti prvenstveno vrlo važan alat u procesu traženja, a onda i dokument koji će doprinijeti utvrđivanju stvarnog stanja u oblasti nestalih.
Amor Mašović, član Kolegija direktora Instituta za nestale osobe BiH, je istakao da je uvjeren da će skoro potpisivanje sporazuma o saradnji između BiH i Republike Hrvatske, kao i BiH i Republike Srbije „još više unaprijediti proces zajedničkih ekshumacija i dovesti do rješavanja još većeg broja nestalih osoba u regionu“.
„Drago mi je da mogu konstatovati da je zajednička metodologija rada i transprentnost u rješavanju slučajeva od zajedničkog interesa dala pozitivne rezultate i smatram da bi se takav pristup trebao primijeniti na ostala pitanja vezana za nestala lica“, rekla je Zorica Avramović, predstavnica Komisije za nestala lica Vlade Republike Srbije.
Naredni radni sastanak planiran je da se održati do kraja 2012. godine
ICMP djeluje globalno kako bi osigurao saradnju vlada i drugih tijela u lociranju i identifikovanju osoba nestalih kao rezultat oružanih sukoba, kršenja ljudskih prava, katastrofa i drugih uzroka.
