BELGRADE - The Association of the Families of the Kidnapped and Murdered in Kosovo and Metohija has sent an open letter to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), asking for assistance in ensuring the release of the kidnapped Serbs in Kosovo.

We are forced to address you with a request for help in ensuring that members of our families who were kidnapped in 1998, 1999, 2000, in Kosovo are released and allowed to go back to their families and children. Our state of Serbia is chairing the OSCE, and this is the last chance for Serbia to finally help our dearest ones, notes the open letter addressed to OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic.

The Association expects Dacic to insist that it must be the OSCE's key demand and obligation that the kidnapped Serbs are released from prison camps in Kosovo and Albania.

Previously, the OSCE urged Serbia to release all captives that had been members of the terrorist organization- Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), and 2,108 Albanian terrorists and criminals were released from Serbian prisons in the period from 2001 to 2003, adds the release.

We are appealing to you to finally demand that the kidnapped Serbs be released immediately and allowed to return to their families and homeland, reads the letter.

The Association of the Families of the Kidnapped and Murdered in Kosovo and Metohija also addressed a letter to Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, calling for his personal engagement in ensuring that the kidnapped Serbs are immediately released so that they can go back to their families, and in bringing to justice the perpetrators of these crimes, former leaders of the so-called KLA.