7 hours agoKosovo, Serbia reach agreement on missing persons
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)The Kosovo and Serbian delegations approved procedures for accepting and handing over mortar waste, which could help search missing persons during the war in Kosovo. The agreement was reached by the Working Group for Missing Persons and became known after the meeting of the delegations of Serbia, Kosovo and the International Committee of the Cross [...]
The agreement was reached by the Working Group for Missing Persons and became known after the meeting of the delegations of Serbia, Kosovo and the International Committee of the Red Cross in Belgrade.
The participating delegations, led by Velko Ollarovic, Ibrahim Makolli and Fabienne Bourdieou, said they expect the approved procedures to help the process of finding the missing.
“Today, 20 years after the war, 6,057 people are reported to the International Committee of the Red Cross as missing from the Kosovo conflict”, Bourdieu said.
Their “families live in uncertainty, not knowing what happened to their loved ones”, he added.
According to nongovernmental organisation data “The Fund for Humanitarian Law”, from the war in Kosovo in 1998-99, remains missing 1,588 people. Of them, more than 1,000 are Albanians, while more than 500 are Serbs and others.
