"The number of those whom we are still searching for is very probably between 9,000 and 10,000 people, but the exact figure will be known only after a complete verification" of the register of missing, the head of Bosnia's Institute for Missing People, Amor Masovic, told journalists.

Masovic spoke at a presentation of the unified register of missing people from Bosnia's three ethnic communities -- Croat, Muslim and Serb -- who fought against each other during the 1992-1995 war.

After having compared 13 lists, compiled during the war by local and international organisations, the institute reached the figure of 34,964 people who have been reported missing, he explained.

However, the number is to be reduced, after verification, for some 2,500 people whose disappearance was reported only once during the war and the relatives have not been looking them for afterwards.

"We believe that these are people who have survived, who were detained at the time" and were not in contact with their families, Masovic said.

The remains of some 21,000 people reported missing have been identified so far.

Also, the remains of several thousand wartime victims are waiting for identification in Bosnia's morgues, he added.

The aim of the unified register of people who went missing during the Bosnia's war is to reveal the "exact truth," Zoran Perkovic, an institute official, said.

"There were many lists and as many truths ... that were often tried to be abused for political goals. Our task is reach only one truth in a responsible way," he stressed.

Bosnia's war claimed some 100,000 lives.

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