Panelists at a public debate in Cagllavica Media Centre said that the EU doesn’t want the issue of missing persons to be part of the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina and that the governments in Kosovo and Serbia are responsible for this as they never initiated such talks.
Head of the Missing Persons Resource Centre in Pristina, Bajram Qerkini, said the most important thing is to determine the fate of missing persons and that the issue of missing persons should be included at the table of talks. “We were promised this would happen last year but it didn’t,” he said.
Coordinator of the Association of Serb Abducted and Missing Families, Milorad Trifunovic, at the same time said that one of the first promises made in Brussels was to focus on missing persons. Trifunovic mentioned UNMIK providing a ground-penetrating radar for detecting human remains as part of efforts to determine the fate of missing persons but that it produced no results.
Political science professor Nexhmedin Spahiu said the plight of families of missing persons should be taken more seriously by relevant institutions while Gordana Djoric from the women business association “Avenija” said the missing and abducted persons are the weakest point for families and the society.
