..."Due to the large number of refugees, the UNHCR said that Serbia should pay special attention to the implementation of refugee rights and the regulation of their status...."
The US and its satellite Croatia, [Islamic] Bosnia, Slovenia etc. should take back these people and allow them to return to their homes. First, of course, the US, Germany, UK, Tadic-Solana coalition should re-build the bombed and destroyed homes of these refugees... =========== http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/11185/ Serbia Hosts 100,000 Refugees from Region 20 June 2008 Belgrade _ Serbia is home to some 100,000 registered refugees from neighbouring Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, new data released today shows. The data, compiled by the UN's refugee organisation and Serbia?s Refugee Commission and published today to mark International Refugee Day, shows that some six thousand of these refugees continue to live in collective centres in what are often described as appalling conditions. In addition, there are over 200,000 internally displaced people in Serbia from Kosovo. Due to the large number of refugees, the UNHCR said that Serbia should pay special attention to the implementation of refugee rights and the regulation of their status. Serbia has 55 collective centres where some families have been living, usually in one room, for over a decade. Many complain that their return, particularly to Croatia, has not been easy. On Thursday, Croatian President Stjepan Mesic said it was his country?s duty was to facilitate the return of all refugees. Read more: http://balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/11168/ Serbia?s President Boris Tadic has said that Belgrade, Sarajevo and Zagreb should put additional efforts in solving their refugee problem. He has said that the European Union membership for all Balkan countries would substantially contribute to the best solution for those people. Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina signed the Sarajevo declaration in 2005 obliging them to find solutions for the return and reintegration of all refugees left homeless in the 1991-1995 regional wars. The UNHCR said that due to the increase in the number of refugees across the world in the past two years, its offices in Serbia and elsewhere received 75,000 applications for refugee status in 2007 alone.
