A permanent migrant camp in Lipa village near the northern town of Bihać should be completed in the next three months, Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Security Minister Selmo Cikotić said on Wednesday, news agency Hina reported.
Cikotić, together with officials from the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and Austria’s ambassador to BiH, Urlike Hartmann, visited the makeshift tent settlement in Lipa, which is currently catering for several hundred migrants resettled there from Bihać upon demand by local authorities.
Work on equipping the Lipa camp is progressing on schedule and the minister believes that the camp will be able to accommodate about 1,500 people by the summer. They will then be housed in containers instead of tents.