Chairman of the Serbian Assembly Committee for Kosovo and Metohija, Milovan Drecun thinks that the first group of former KLA commanders, who are supposed to go to The Hague, should be indicted, and not on the list of witnesses, Tanjug news agency reports.
“According to me, those invited now, are rather candidates to be indicted than becoming witnesses, but perhaps some of them could be a protected witness,” Drecun said.
The international community has no more carrots it can offer to Belgrade and Pristina, while the Special Court for KLA crimes would be the pressure to move the dialogue ahead, Nebojsa Covic told Prva TV.
Former head of the Coordination Centre for Kosovo and Metohija, Covic added that regardless to the number of murdered witnesses, NATO and KFOR have voluminous sufficient to prosecute KLA crimes.
Kosovo Assembly Deputy Speaker, Xhavit Haliti said that those whose names were mentioned in the Dick Marty’s report could be invited to appear before the Specialist Court, if there are evidences, BETA news agency reported.
Haliti made these remarks for KTV, adding he expects the Specialist Court would invite all persons mentioned in the Swiss Senator Dick Marty’s report, adopted by the Council of Europe, if there are evidences.
Secretary General of the Serbian Foreign Affairs Ministry, Veljko Odalovic told Danas daily it is very important that members of the KLA command structure are invited to the Hague, adding he expects that the first indictments for the crimes against Serbs would “soon be shaped and presented.”
“We have gathered and submitted many evidences related to the direct link of people from the command structure with the committed crimes,” Odalovic said.
Radio Television of Serbia reports that the first group of former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army will fly to The Hague on Thursday in a special plane, for the hearing before the prosecutors of the Special Court for crimes committed during the war.
RTS reports that it is already certain that two KLA members who received invitations for The Hague - Sylejman Selimi, who is in the hospital and Remzi Shala, whose current place of residence is unknown, will not board the plane.
Representatives of the Special Court for KLA crimes would visit Serbia on 21 December and meet with lawyers selected to carry out acts of representation before this judicial institution, Tanjug news agency reported.
According to Belgrade-based daily Politika, the visit would last two days, while the Special Court would be presented by the Head of the Victims’ Participation Office, Silke Studzinsky and the Coordinator of the Defense Office, David Hein.
Cabinet of the former Swiss Senator, former Special Rapporteur of the Council of Europe and the author of a report on organ harvesting in Kosovo in 2010 Dick Marty, said that he did not talk to Presheva jon agency about the Special Court for the war crimes, KIM Radio reports.
“Marti did not make statements on that issue and generally does not plan to talk about that,” KIM Radio added referring to Marty’s office reply to Gazeta express.
Serbian Justice Minister, Nela Kuburovic told Tanjug news agency that scandalous statement of Nasim Haradinaj, who said he was killing Serbs and he regrets of not killing as many as he would like, is a call to the international institutions to urgently react, so the Special Court for KLA crimes starts working as soon as possible.
Special Prosecutor Jack Smith could soon raise the first indictments against perpetrators of war crimes during the Kosovo conflict, however, the Hague does not want to reveal the date when this could happen, RTS reports.
Entire floor at Scheveningen prison is getting empty, and it is about at least 12 prison cells, Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said, adding these cells would be used for the needs of the Special Court for KLA crimes, Serbian media report.
“This is an exclusive news from Scheveningen, it is checked 100 percent. It means the Court starts working and the first arrests are expected,” Dacic told Prva TV.