International organizations whose job is to enable the return of internally displaced persons from Kosovo and Metohija to their places of origin, failed in every sense, and there is no falsified statistics and methodology that can conceal this fact, Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija said in a written statement.

“We urge both Pristina and the international organizations that wish to conceal the exact number of internally displaced persons from Kosovo and Metohija, instead of masking their poor results and failures in resolving one of the greatest humanitarian catastrophe in a recent European history, to finally make steps to resolving this issue for the sake of justice and humanity,” the Office further said.

The Office for KiM stressed when they warn on the unresolved issue of internally displaced persons from southern province, they refer to the only relevant, official data of the Republic of Serbia Commissariat for Refugees and Migration.

The Commissariat in cooperation with UNHCR in March 2000 carried out the registration of internally displaced persons from Kosovo and Metohija and registered 187.129 persons, while in the period from 2000 to 2005, more than 20.000 persons have left Kosovo and Metohija.

“The number of internally displaced persons from Kosovo and Metohija in central Serbia at the end of 2005 was 209.021, and if we include the number of internally displaced persons temporarily residing in Kosovo and Metohija in Serb-majority areas we are reaching the number that exceeds 220.000 internally displaced persons from Kosovo and Metohija, Republic of Serbia is taking care of,” press statement said.

The current number of internally displaced persons from Kosovo and Metohija at the territory of central Serbia, as per data of Republic of Serbia Commissariat for Refugees and Migration is 201.047, RTS reported.