On this year's World Refugee Day there are still almost 30,000 refugees in Serbia from Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia.

In addition, there are more than 200,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Kosovo in the country, the Serbian Commissariat for Refugees has announced.

- The Sunny Valley cannot be and is not colonization, but the result of the fact that the return of displaced persons from Kosovo and Metohija cannot be implemented in those areas where they want to return, such as Đakovica, for example - said the Kosovo Minister for Return and Communities, Dalibor Jevtić.

Jevtić told RTS that in the first five months of this year only 101 displaced persons have returned to Kosovo which gives the best possible reflection of the situation on the ground.

Administrative Instruction of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, which contains new requirements for entitlement to a basic pension in Kosovo, has created difficulties to the applicants. Obtaining the necessary documents, such as proof of property tax payment for internally displaced persons is almost mission impossible. For the relevant ministry, new requirements are a mechanism against possible abuses, while the caucus of the Serbian List in the Kosovo Assembly, characterized the move of the ministry as a violation of the law.

In Serbia, there are 204,049 internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Kosovo-Metohija, the director of the Serbian government office for Kosovo-Metohija said on Tuesday, noting that the return of Serbs and other non-Albanians is limited by a lack of a mechanism for a return of usurped property.

Seventeen years after the conflict in Serbia's southern province, the problem of displaced persons remains, Djuric said at the third high-level regional forum on permanent solutions for displaced persons from Kosovo-Metohija.

Minister for Communities and Returns in the Kosovo government, Dalibor Jevtić talked in Kosovo Polje/Fushë Kosovë with the Minister for Human and Minority Rights in the Government of Montenegro, Sead Numanović.

Jevtić said that issues related to the process of return of displaced persons from Montenegro to Kosovo were discussed, and in general solutions to the problems of internally displaced people and respect of their rights.

It was announced at at a meeting held in Pristina that the working group on finding durable solutions for return will try to find a way to facilitate financial or bureaucratic problems that displaced persons face in exercising their right to identity documents.

Coalition of displaced persons from Kosovo will perform in the elections on the list gathered around the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), Danas unofficially learned.

The sources of the daily newspaper Danas state that "there was a mood" to enter into the coalition alliance with the Movement of Socialists led by Aleksandar Vulin, but on the eve of the announcement of early elections, there was a change of the decision.

During meetings with representatives of international institutions in Kosovo, Minister of Communities and Returns Dalibor Jevtic discussed the implementation of important projects for the return of displaced persons to Kosovo in 2016.  Jevtic met with the head of the UNHCR mission in Kosovo Narasimha Rao. They discussed the creation of a manual for displaced persons. Jevtic stressed the importance of this document, noting that it has to meet high standards and be completed by the end of March this year.

Our coalition consists mainly of associations of displaced persons of Kosovo, but also a number of prominent individuals who do not belong to any association. Their work and dedication, until they were violently expelled from our ancestral homes, have left an indelible mark on the territory of Kosovo, said Milos Stojkovic, President of the Coalition of Displaced Persons from Kosovo and Metohija to Danas, announcing the participation of the coalition in the upcoming parliamentary elections.

OSCE Mission in Kosovo, together with UNHCR, will organize on 21 September in Budva Technical Meeting and Forum on the highest level about sustainable solutions for displaced persons from Kosovo.

The working group for technical issues will finalize proposals on 21 September related to priority areas such as property issues, civil documentation, data management and cooperation.