SARAJEVO, Bosnia (October 5,2007) – The Bosnian Minister of Human Rights and Refugees Safet Halilovic had a meeting with the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency Director Anders Hedlund and this Swedish organization representative from Stockholm Eva Belfrage on the projects financed by this organization that are being implemented in Bosnia.
Belfrage stated that the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency representatives are satisfied with the cooperation with the Bosnian Ministry of Human Rights and Refugees and that the projects related to the return process will end by the end of the year.
The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency invested 28 million Euros in 2006 for the projects in Bosnia; about 75 million Euros are to be invested in the following three years.
”In the following period, we will focus on helping Bosnia in the stabilization and association processes. We will do so by supporting the institutional reforms”, Belfrage said and added that this Swedish organizcation is interested in helping the Bosnian Ministry of Human Rights and Refugees in development of the action plans for improvement of the Roma people’s position in the country, especially in the housing sector.
Halilovic thanked the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency representatives for the assistance they have been providing to Bosnia, especially the returnees and added that many important projects have been realized in cooperation between the Bosnian Ministry of Human Rights and Refugees and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency.
It was emphasized at the meeting that the data base formation project will be completed by the end of the year. The database contains information on all the objects in Bosnia in need of a reconstruction.
This project will be implemented in 104 municipalities in Bosnia. They will all be able to use the database for the purpose of reconstructing the objects, Minister Halilovic said.
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