EUROPEAN UNON INVESTED ONE MILLION EUROS FOR A RETURNEE SECTOR PROJECT IN BOSNIA

SARAJEVO, Bosnia (October 11,2007) – The Bosnian Minister of Human Rights and Refugees Safet Halilovic and Head of the Democracy and social Development Department at the European Commission Delegation to Bosnia Michael Docherty talked in Sarajevo about the project entitled “Monitoring Recommendations of a Functional Overview of the Returnees’ Sector”. The project is about 1 million KM worth and is financed by the EU.

Halilovic supported the project and proposed the activities to be directed towards the Bosnian Ministry of Human Rights and Refugees’ assistance. That means making the ministry an efficient institution which will fully be dedicated to the issues of displaced persons and refugees and human rights protection.Halilovic remarked that the recommendations have not been made concrete enough.

”We want you to help us become an institution which will help the returnees and refugees in the processes of reconstruction of their homes, creating conditions for sustainable return and human rights protection implementation”, Halilovic said.

Docherty stated that the project will focus on the necessities of the Bosnian Ministry for Human Rights and that the cooperation with the Ministry will be close.