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[:en]The Hague 5 October 2023 – Visiting the Headquarters of the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) in The Hague today, members of the Advisory Board of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Missing Persons Institute (MPI) emphasized the importance of regional cooperation, full implementation of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s (BiH) Law on Missing Persons, and continued support for the work of the MPI.
The Law on Missing Persons, created in 2004, stipulates the creation of a verified BiH Central Record of Missing Persons and the establishment of a BiH Fund for Families of the Missing. The fund, which is to provide financial support to families of the missing, regardless of national or religious affiliation or circumstances of disappearance, has not yet been established.
The Chairman of the MPI Advisory Board Ante Maric called on BiH government institutions to work together. “Approximately 7,000 families are still waiting for information about their missing loved ones,’ he said. “This underscores the urgency of cooperation and comprehensive implementation of the law.”
ICMP Director-General Kathryne Bomberger emphasized the importance of engagement of families of the missing in the process. She said, “With ICMP support and engagement of the families of the missing the authorities in BIH managed to locate more than 75 percent of more than 30,000 people who went missing during the conflict of the 1990s in BIH. The efforts must continue to account for the remaining missing persons in order to uphold the rule of law. The active and engaged role of families of the missing is crucial for the success of this process.”
In June 2018, heads of government from the Western Balkans meeting in London signed a Joint Declaration renewing their commitment to cooperate in the effort to account for those who are still missing. The Joint Declaration was followed by the signing of a Framework Plan in November 2018, at ICMP Headquarters in The Hague, by representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro and Serbia, who formally undertook to work together as the regional Missing Persons Group (MPG).
Associations of families of missing persons from the Western Balkans gathered as Regional Coordination Network are jointly working for the resolution of missing persons issues with the governments in the region and advocating for effective investigations into the enforced disappearance of their relatives during the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
Today’s visit was part of the project supported by the Delegation of the European Union to BIH and Swedish Embassy in BIH and being implemented by ICMP, to strengthen the efforts to find the remaining missing persons.
About ICMP
ICMP is a treaty-based intergovernmental organization with Headquarters in The Hague, the Netherlands. Its mandate is to secure the cooperation of governments and others in locating missing persons from conflict, human rights abuses, disasters, organized crime, irregular migration and other causes and to assist them in doing so.[:bs]Hag 5. oktobar 2023. godine – U posjeti sjedištu Međunarodne komisije za nestale osobe (ICMP) danas u Hagu, članovi Savjetodavnog odbora Instituta za nestale osobe Bosne i Hercegovine (INO) naglasili su važnost regionalne saradnje, potpunog provođenja Zakona o nestalim osobama Bosne i Hercegovine (BiH) i kontinuirane podrške radu INO-a.
Zakon o nestalim osobama, usvojen 2004. godine, propisuje uspostavljanje verificirane Centralne evidencije nestalih osoba u BiH i osnivanje Fonda za porodice nestalih osoba u BiH. Fond, koji bi pružao finansijsku pomoć porodicama nestalih, bez obzira na nacionalnu i vjersku pripadnost, odnosno okolnosti nestanka, još uvijek nije osnovan.
Predsjedavajući Savjetodavnog odbora INO-a, Ante Marić je pozvao institucije vlasti u BiH da sarađuju. “Otprilike 7.000 porodica još uvijek čeka informacije o svojim najmilijim koji su nestali”, izjavio je. “To naglašava nužnost saradnje i sveobuhvatne provedbe zakona.”
Glavna direktorica ICMP-a, Kathryne Bomberger istakla je značaj angažmana porodica nestalih u ovom procesu. Izjavila je: „ Uz podršku ICMP-a i angažman porodica nestalih vlasti u BiH su uspjele pronaći više od 75 posto od preko 30.000 osoba nestalih tokom sukoba 1990-ih godina u BiH. Ovaj posao se mora nastaviti kako bi se pronašle preostale nestale osoba u cilju očuvanja vladavine prava. Aktivna i angažirana uloga porodica nestalih je ključna za uspjeh ovog procesa“
U junu 2018. godine su šefovi vlada zemalja sa zapadnog Balkana na sastanku u Londonu potpisali Zajedničku deklaraciju kojom su ponovili svoju opredijeljenost za saradnju u naporima na pronalaženju osoba koje se još uvijek vode kao nestale. Nakon Zajedničke deklaracije uslijedilo je potpisivanje Okvirnog plana u novembru 2018. godine u sjedištu ICMP-a u Hagu od strane predstavnika Bosne i Hercegovine, Hrvatske, Kosova, Crne Gore i Srbije, koji su se zvanično obavezali da će raditi zajedno kao regionalna Grupa za nestale osobe (GNO).
Udruženja porodica nestalih osoba sa zapadnog Balkana okupljeni kao Regionalna koordinaciona mreža rade zajedno na rješavanju pitanja nestalih osoba s vladama u regiji i zagovaraju efikasne istrage u slučajevima prisilnih nestanaka svojih srodnika tokom sukoba 1990-ih godina u bivšoj Jugoslaviji.
Današnja posjeta je bila dio projekta koji podržavaju Delegacija Evropske unije u BiH i Ambasada Kraljevine Švedske u BiH, a provodi ICMP, kako bi se osnažili napori u pronalaženju preostalih nestalih osoba.
O ICMP-u
ICMP je sporazumom utemeljena međunarodna organizacija sa sjedištem u Hagu u Nizozemskoj. Njegov mandat je da osigura saradnju vlada i drugih organa vlasti u pronalaženju osoba nestalih uslijed sukoba, povreda ljudskih prava, nesreća, organiziranog kriminala, ilegalnih migracija i drugih razloga, te da im pruži pomoć u tim procesima.[:]
