Germany Donates 150 Thousand Euro for ICMP DNA Laboratories

The German Government made a donation of 150 thousand Euro to speed up the process of search for the missing persons in conflicts of former Yugoslavia, said the International Commission on Missing Persons from Sarajevo.

ICMP's DNA laboratories received big donation from the German Government

The ICMP incorporates the use of DNA as a primary tool in post-conflict identifications; this method requires the collection and profiling of DNA from blood samples donated by family members with missing relatives for matching with DNA extracted from bone samples taken from recovered mortal remains.

ICMP made its first DNA match in November 2001, and since then the organization has made over 8,000 DNA matches of different individuals missing from the conflicts in the regions of the former Yugoslavia, of which approximately 6,000 are of persons missing from Bosnia Herzegovina.

"We hope that this contribution will help to facilitate ICMP's important mission to provide answers for family members, giving them accurate, politically neutral identifications based on DNA science," said Arne Freiherr von Kittlitz und Ottendorf, German Ambassador to Sarajevo.

The Government of Germany has supported the activities of ICMP since 2001. The work of ICMP is also supported by the Governments of the United States of America, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Sweden, Finland, Greece and the Holy See, and by the European Union.

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