The Sarajevo cantonal government has adopted a new law allowing people displaced by the 1990s war to retain welfare benefits when they return to their old homes.
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Almost 500 families from Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia will be given new homes in a scheme that also aims to solve tens of thousands more wartime refugees’ housing problems.
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Proposed new legislation giving Bosnian refugees rights to their pre-war property or compensation passed its first reading in the legislature.
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The refugees minister from Bosnia’s Serb-run entity Republika Srpska said funds were available to help families who fled to Croatia during wartime to go home.
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Parliament must agree a proposal to give wartime refugees from Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo another year to apply for 'resident foreigner' status guaranteeing rights to work and welfare.
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Sarajevo says it can build more than 5,000 homes for refugees who fled during the war in the 1990s but now want to come back.
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Croatia's leader Ivo Josipovic and Bosnia’s refugees minister Damir Ljubic both called for displaced Bosnians to go back to their pre-war homes.
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Refugees from Kosovo living in containers at a camp in Montenegro's capital staged a demonstration to demand power supplies.
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The Alliance of Associations of Displaced Persons urged Montenegro's leaders not to appoint ambassador to Pristina until people who fled Kosovo in 1999 are allowed to return.
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The Council of Ministers has asked the Bosnian Parliament to adopt a new draft Law on refugees, returnees and internally displaced persons in order to solve their most pressing needs.
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Refugees from Kosovo residing in Montenegro's capital, whose barracks were burnt down in July's fire, have been re-housed in more than 200 containers, until permanent homes for them are built.
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In order to help returnees to the Serb dominated entity of Republika Srpska, the Bosnian federation has reached a decision to finance projects of agriculture and small businesses.
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The European Union has pledged to finance the construction of additional flats and houses in order to permanently resolve housing problems of refugees in Serbia, EU senior official says.
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A lack of funds, and the failure to resolve both war crimes and missing persons cases, remain obstacles to the return to Kosovo of some 235,000 people displaced by the 1998-1999 war, says OSCE.
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Seventeen years after the Dayton accords which stopped the Bosnian war, the signatory countries are yet to fully implement the agreement.
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