Former Assembly Speaker and current head of the National Council at the Initiative for Kosovo (NISMA) political party, Jakup Krasniqi, stated that witnesses can be protected also in Kosovo and that this is not an essential reason to establish a special court. His statement came as a response to the announcement of the Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth that the special court has to establish being that witnesses are not protected in Kosovo. “I do not think that lack of witness protection is strong basis, being that they can be protected both in Kosovo and outside Kosovo. The issue of the witnesses is not essential,” said Krasniqi.