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Refugees – 1999

According to the U.N. Secretary General’s report, “in the first ten months of 1999, the UNHCR registered the return of 43,830 refugees and 32,695 internally displaced persons. Of these, 18,604 individuals were members of ethnic minorities returning to the Federation, while 9,522 individuals (sic) members of ethnic minorities were recorded returning to the Republika Srpska.”¹ Part of the reason was related to the political and administrative obstruction at the local level to implementing the property law. As a step forward, however, the RS assembly “passed amended legislation in December that will allow former residents to reclaim socially-owned ‘abandoned’ property.”²

1. “Report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina,” U.N. Security Council (S/1999/1260), December 17, 1999.
2. “12th Report of the High Representative for Implementation of the Peace Agreement to the Secretary-General of the United Nations,” OHR, 1999, accessed May 2, 2011, http://www.ohr.int/other-doc/hr-reports/default.asp?content_id=3675.