According to the latest reports of the Service for Foreigners' Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), around 700 migrants are currently staying in reception centers in the Una-Sana Canton. Almost 280 are housed in the Temporary Center Borići in the center of Bihać, while around 400 are at the Lipa center.

Situation is under the control

The capacities of these two well-equipped centers in Bihać provide the possibility of receiving and caring for more than 2,000 people in need, therefore the situation is under the control of the competent institutions for the migration process in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The Service for Foreigners' Affairs, together with members of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Una-Sana Canton, conducts continuous activities on the ground, which include sheltering migrants from inadequate living conditions. Numerous activities have been realized in abandoned buildings and locations of so-called improvised camps, which has recently significantly reduced the number of criminal acts and incidents.

Structure of migrants is changing

- The situation is much more favorable compared to the previous period. The accommodation capacities in the reception centers are not even close to being filled, and the most important thing is that they provide people with adequate and dignified treatment. The citizens of Bihać still have a lot of understanding for these people, but now we are all more satisfied together. There may still be a certain number of migrants staying in these so-called improvised camps, but the security situation is fully under control, which is the most important. It seems to me that the structure of migrants is also changing to some extent, as well as the approach of the neighboring Republic of Croatia in dealing with people who try to cross the border with the European Union - said Bihać Mayor Šuhret Fazlić.

The largest number of migrants residing in this part of Bosnia and Herzegovina in this period are still citizens of Afghanistan, but they are followed by citizens of Burundi and some other African countries, which was not the case before.