PACE to discuss missing Kosovo Serbs
The Vice-President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Milos Aligrudic said on Tuesday that the issue of missing Kosovo Serbs could be on the institution's agenda in the next few days and months.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Wednesday, June 04, 2008
"Our initiative has passed through the Parliamentary Assembly Presidency and despite obstructions by part of the Parliamentary Assembly Bureau members, the majority agreed that a report be prepared through the PA Human Rights Committee," Aligrudic said.
Aligrudic, who ended his visit to the families of missing persons in Kosovo, said that the proposal of the Serbian delegation had had the support of PACE President Lluis Maria de Puig and that this proposal would be the topic of one of the next sessions.
"This is a difficult and horrible story, I sincerely hope that it is not true, primarily for the sake of these people's families who are in terrible pain in connection with this," Aligrudic said and added that this story was obviously hushed up in the circles of UNMIK, KFOR and part of the international community.
He said that it was important to "revive (this problem) and that a debate start at the PACE in the next weeks and months and that these tragic developments be presented again in the public."
"We understand that the obstruction of justice primarily results from the fact that some of these people who have to be accountable according to command responsibility or in some other way, are now among the political leaders of Kosovo Albanians and that these people were supported by the United States and some European states," Aligrudic said.
