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Internally Displaced Persons – 2001

The Secretary General reported to the UN Security Council the results of the re-registration of IDPs. This exercise was carried out in support of the UNHCR through both entities. According to the report, 518,252 persons applied for the IDP status (231,732 applied in Republika Srpska, 263,375 in the Federation, and 23,145 in the Brcko District) at the end of 2000. Approximately 845,000 were registered as IDPs in 1996.¹ The report also suggested that 25 percent of the 254,333 individual property claims had been resolved and 50 percent had been decided upon, which represented an important benchmark in the implementation of the property legislation. According to the UNHCR report, some 18,665 refugees and 80,172 IDPs returned in 2001,² 92,061 of whom returned to their pre-war homes.

1. “Report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina,” U.N. Security Council (S/2001/571), June 7, 2001.
2. “2002 UNHCR Statistical Yearbook- Bosnia and Herzegovina.”