President of the Commission for Missing Persons in the Serbian Government Veljko Odalović said that in order to continue clarifying the fate of missing persons in Kosovo, information about the new mass graves are required. "I hope that this year we will finally receive information about Kosare. We also request new search of Livočko Lake and Zilivode. However, these are our information. We did not receive information from the other side and I hope that Kosovo society will start to cooperate," said Odalović in the talk show Razgovor.

The Department of Forensic Medicine (DFM), on Thursday met with the families of 28 victims found in the mass grave at Rudnica, Raska last year. The DFM officially informed them about the identification of their relatives and handed over the relevant documents. The remains of the 28 victims will be buried in Rezalle village, Skenderaj municipality on the 5th of April, media report referring to a press release issued by EULEX.

Representatives of the Kosovo government Commission on Missing Persons travelled to Croatia, at the invitation of the Commission for Kidnaped and Missing Persons in Croatia. The meeting held between the two committees aimed to concretize the steps in addressing the cases of common interest and cooperation, in the exchange of experience with a view to addressing the challenges facing the two countries in the process of enlightening the fate of the missing as a result of the wars in former Yugoslavia.

"I would be happy if we closed that page yesterday. But our 525 people are still missing. There is no information, everything is hidden. That's what hurts, but we will not give up," said Veljko Odalović, President of the Commission for Missing Persons. Odalović together with representatives of the Association of Families of Kidnapped and Missing Persons and the citizens of Kosovo and Metohija in Gracanica participated in the marking of the pogrom that took place on 17 and 18 March 2014.

The Association of Families of Kidnapped and Missing, on the anniversary of the March pogrom, marked seventeen years since the beginning of killing and kidnapping of Serbs in Kosovo. In front of the monument MISSING in Gracanica, representatives of the Association of Kidnapped and Missing persons reminded that still it is not known the fate of 525 people. 

One of the representatives of the Association Milena Parlić has asked the international community in Kosovo to enable families to learn the truth about their missing family members. 

Association of missing persons in Kosovo and Metohija and the Association of missing Albanians have agreed with the families to seek together all disappeared.

This was after the meeting, "Non-governmental associations for Missing Persons - Example of best practice and cooperation between communities", in Pristina, said the coordinator of the Association for missing persons in Kosovo, Milorad Trifunovic.

Trifunovic told BETA that the policy remains the major obstacle to resolving the fate of missing Serbs and Albanians.

The United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances told Serbia that it was still failing to meet its international commitment to resolve the fate of missing persons from the 1990s wars.

The UN committee admonished Belgrade for not doing enough to uphold the rights of people who disappeared and their relatives, who it said “are still waiting for justice and reparations for the war crimes and crimes against humanity during the wars of the 1990s”.

BELGRADE - Deputy Chief Prosecutor at Kosovo’s Special Prosecution Office Jonathan Ratel has pledged that EULEX will reopen all cases of kidnapped and murdered journalists in Kosovo-Metohija, the Journalists' Association of Serbia (UNS) has said in a release.

A delegation of UNS representatives met with Ratel at the EULEX headquarters in Pristina Friday for exchange of information on the cases involving kidnappings and murders of journalists in the southern Serbian province.

The Association of the Families of Missing Persons in Kosovo declared that they will not attend any protest organized by political parties, and called on family members of the missing not to be manipulated by politicians. Members of the Association called on Prime Minister Isa Mustafa to dismiss the Minister for Communities and Returns Aleksandar Jablanovic for his “insulting statement for the family members of missing people.” “The visit of Serbian Prime Minister in such a tense situation is humiliating for the families of the missing,” it is on their reaction.