On Monday the 19th July 2010, on the premises of the Presidency of the Republic of Serbia, the presidents of the Republics of Serbia and Croatia, Boris Tadić and Ivo Josipović respectively met with refugee families from the Republic of Croatia. The aim of the meeting was the articulation of the outstanding open issues representing impediments to the sustainable and lasting return of refugees to the territory of Croatia; issues whose resolution is considered a matter of priority for the governments concerned.

The families participating in the meeting were representative of the most vulnerable category of refugees, housed at the collective centre of “PIM” Krnjača in Belgrade.

The families: Pjevalice, Anđušić, Đurđević, Drača, Lalić, Požar and Dobrić were, by merit of their own example, demonstrative of some of the aforementioned outstanding issues, more precisely:  the problems of seized housing / tenancy rights, unpaid and due pensions, convalescence of service, slow and inadequate restoration of destroyed and damaged property, the problem of obtaining personal documents from the Republic of Croatia, the inability to provide employment and adequate health care for returnees as well as the existence of secret indictments.

At the meeting, besides the presidents, also present were the Commissioner for Refugees of the Republic of Serbia Mr. Vladimir Cucić, the Serbian ambassador to Croatia Mr. Stanimir Vukičević, the cabinet chief of the office of the vice president (Dr. Krkobabić) Dr. Miroslav Kopečni, adviser to the president of Serbia Mr. Mlađan Đorđević, the Croatian ambassador to Serbia Mr. Željko Kuprešak, the adviser to the president of Croatia Mr. Siniša Tatalović, and Mr. Milorad Pupovac, the president of the Serbian National Council.