Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said on Wednesday that the forthcoming census, which will be conducted in 2021, was an important matter for the whole country, including Vukovar, as it would provide an updated picture of the ethnic structure in that eastern Croatian city.

“The next census is important for the whole of Croatia. We will probably be provided with information on the width ad depth of the negative demographic trends,” Plenkovic said in Vukovar.

“It will also give us an updated picture of the ethnic structure of the City of Vukovar, and we will see it,” Plenkovic said when asked whether the findings of the 2021 census are being awaited before deciding on setting up bilingual signs in Vukovar, that is both in the Latin and Cyrillic scripts.

Asked about people who are still unaccounted-for after going missing in the 1991-1995 Homeland War, Plenkovic said that the government would make permanent efforts to solve that issue.

“We must establish what happened with all those people, because of them and because of their families.”

He recalled that on the International Day of the Disappeared he also promised that “we will never cease searching for those people.”

In this context he emphasised the efforts being made by War Veterans’ Minister Tomo Medved.