More than 10,000 persons still missing in Balkan region

Belgrade, 15 August 2017 (MIA) - There are still 10,600 persons listed as missing in the Balkan region from the period of the conflicts in 1990s, President of the Serbian Commission for Missing Persons Veljko Odalovic said on Tuesday.
Time is not an ally in solving the issue, he said, pointing out that the problem of the missing is becoming increasingly difficult to solve, as there is less and less new information and readiness to share it with governmental bodies involved in this job.
'This issue is societal and humanitarian, but also a significant political matter, which should be resolved for the sake of stabilizing the region. There are about 10,600 missing persons in the region – the size of a town – and it is an obstacle to start the normalization of relations in the full capacity. Behind those 10,600 missing persons are tens or hundreds of thousands of family members, those who are directly interested in their fate,' Odalovic said.