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Sarajevo 21 March 2016 – Resolving the issue of missing persons is a key element in sustaining reconciliation and stability throughout the region, Matthew Holliday, the Head of ICMP’s Western Balkans Program, said today during a briefing in Pristina for HRH Prince Charles, who was visiting Kosovo as part of a regional tour.
At the briefing, organized at the Presidency/Assembly Building by the Government Commission on Missing Persons in Kosovo, Prince Charles met members of family associations of the missing, as well as officials and representatives of international organizations.
ICMP has worked to address the issue of missing persons in Kosovo since 1999. Since 2003 it has helped the authorities through DNA-based identifications, working initially with the UN Interim Administration (UNMIC) and since September 2008 with the EU Rule of Law Mission (EULEX). Using DNA, ICMP has helped to identify more than 2,500 of the estimated 4,500 missing from the Kosovo conflict.
ICMP has provided technical assistance and capacity development for the Commission on Missing Persons, and has helped to empower dozens of family associations, helping families of the missing to claim their rights to the truth and to justice.
“The uncertainty of the fate of the missing is an impediment to peace and reconciliation. That’s why the authorities in Pristina and Belgrade need to strengthen their cooperation and double their efforts to search for the remaining 1,670 persons missing as a result of the Kosovo conflict,” said Holliday.[:bs]
Rješavanje problema nestalih osoba je ključni element za održavanje pomirenja i stabilnosti u regiji, rekao je Matthew Holliday, šef Programa za zapadni Balkan Međunarodne komisije za nestale osobe (ICMP), tokom sastanka sa Njegovim Visočanstvom Princom Charlesom u Prištini, koji je posjetio Kosovo u sklopu regionalne posjete.
Tokom sastanka organizovanog u zgradi Predsjedništva i Skupštine od strane Komisije za nestale osobe vlade Kosova, Princ Charles se sastao sa članovima udruženja porodica nestalih osoba, kao i predstavnicima vlasti i međunarodnih organizacija.
ICMP je radio na rješavanju pitanja nestalih osoba na Kosovu od 1999. Od 2003. godine asistirao je vlastima kroz DNK identifikacije, radeći prvobitno sa Privremenom administrativnom misijom UN-a na Kosovu, a od septembra 2008. godine sa EULEX-om. Koristeći DNK, ICMP je pomogao da se identifikuje više od 2,500 nestalih od ukupno 4,500 osoba koje su nestale u konfliktu na Kosovu.
ICMP je pružio tehničku podršku i mogućnost razvoja Komisiji za nestale osobe, te je pomogao da se ojača rad desetina udruženja porodica koje pomažu porodicama nestalih osoba u traženju njihovih prava na istinu i pravdu.
“Neizvjesna sudbine nestalih osoba je prepreka ka miru i pomirenju. Zbog toga bi vlasti u Prištini i Beogradu trebale da ojačaju saradnju i da udvostruče svoje napore u traženju preostalih 1,670 osoba nestalih usljed konflikta na Kosovu,” rekao je Holliday.[:]
