Today, in the reception camp "Lipa" near Bihać, the registration and issuance of identification cards for about a thousand migrants who are accommodated there begins.

This will establish a biometric system with databases.

- We must start the procedure of issuing identification cards, and establish a biometric system with databases in order to know at all times whether migrants staying in the camp are registered - said the Deputy Director of the Service for Foreigners Affairs of B&H Mirsad Buzar.

Local media report that about 2,700 migrants are currently staying in four reception centers in Una-Sana Canton, while about five hundred are in private accommodation or abandoned facilities.