Investigation wins support to find missing former Yugoslavs

The head of an international commission, which is trying to discover the fate of tens-of-thousands of people missing after the war in the former Yugoslavia says he has won more backing from regional leaders.

The commission chairman, the former United States senator, Bob Dole, said the Yugoslav President, Slobodan Milosevic, had undertaken to release immediately four-hundred files on missing people in the eastern Croatian city of Vukovar.

Mr Dole also had talks in Croatia, where he met the families of some of those missing.

Earlier in the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, he told political leaders that Western aid was linked to resolving the issue.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service