Sarajevo, 18 January 2018: The International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) hosted a meeting in Sarajevo today with families of the missing from Bosnia and Herzegovina to present ICMP’s continuing assistance to BIH and its cooperation with families and government authorities here to locate and identify the estimated 7,000 persons who are still missing from the 1992-95 conflict.

To date over 70 % of the 30,000 persons missing from the conflicts of the 1990’s have been accounted for. Despite consistent efforts of the BiH authorities to locate the remaining missing persons, the number of new sites found has decreased since 2009. ICMP will continue to help the authorities in BIH address the interrelated issues of unidentified remains held in BiH mortuaries and misidentifications that occurred before ICMP introduced DNA testing in 2001. ICMP will maintain Forensic Anthropology and Archaeology activities and will…

The Hague, 18 January 2018: Director-General Kathryne Bomberger has expressed ICMP’s appreciation for the assistance it received last month from the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, noting that in 2018 ICMP will be able to advance further a range of activities because of Luxembourg’s support.

“Luxembourg was one of ICMP’s important supporters providing ICMP with diplomatic and financial support, including the most recent grant that will help ICMP implement core activities,” Bomberger said.

Luxembourg was a key player in the initiative to establish ICMP as a treaty-based international organization with headquarters in The Hague, the Netherlands. It is also one of the five original…