Natasa Stanisavljevic (Photo: Beta/Prinscreen)
Twenty-eight years after the end of Croatian Operation Storm and the expulsion of Serbs from that country, there are still just over 17,000 people from Croatia with refugee status, the Commissariat for Refugees announced on Aug. 4.
"The Government of Serbia and the Commissariat are continuously working on solving the problem of persons who were forced to leave their homes during the conflict in the former Yugoslavia. One of the most important goals of the Commissariat is to solve the refugee families' housing problems," said Commissioner Natasa Stanisavljevic.
She said that so far 27,925 families had been taken care of with funds from the Serbian budget and from donors, the biggest of whom was the EU through the Regional Housing Program.
She added that 23,975 refugee families had been "economically empowered."
"At the moment, there are still 24,897 persons with refugee status, 17,074 of them from Croatia. We also have 194,171 internally displaced persons," said Stanisavljevic.
The Commissariat's announcement also states that more than 190,000 people fled Croatia and found refuge in Serbia over the course of 1995, while a number of them went to Republika Srpska.
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