Politicians’ promises that the destiny of the missing persons during the war in Kosovo would be resolved and this issue would become a topic of the Brussels dialogue, is just pouring salt to the wounds, said Coordinator of Missing Persons Association in Kosovo, Milorad Trifunovic, RTV Puls reported.

Commenting on the statement of the Kosovo President, Hashim Thaci that “he would personally engage to resolve the fate of the missing persons,” Trifunovic said that representatives of the Association of Families of the Missing and Kidnapped Persons, since October last year, met with Thaci three times. “We had a meeting a few days ago, organized with the support of the British Embassy. Thaci said there, he would do his utmost to fulfil the wishes of the families of the missing and kidnapped persons, that this must not be a taboo and that he would do all it takes to shed the light on the destinies of the missing persons as well as this issue to become a topic in Belgrade-Pristina dialogue.” Trifunovic stated. “All this is prolonged and remains a dead letter on the paper, said and unfinished, and all over again.” Trifunovic also said that such promises of politicians to the members of the families of the missing and kidnapped persons are just “pouring the salt on their wounds”. “The pain gets revived, the sorrow gets revived. There is always a hope, we are always hoping for something and then nothing (….)”. Trifunovic also met with the Head of the EU Office in Kosovo, Natalya Apostolova, and she has also promised “to do her utmost to have talks about this issue”. “I do not trust politicians, but let’s see this time. We have never had such strong promises and it seems to me something would get out of it, and if nothing happens, then what, then we would vanish,” Trifunovic concluded.