Excavations are underway in the village of Gllareva, Klina municipality, in an effort to determine the identity of human remains buried at the site. Kosovapress reports that forensic teams have already exhumed one body believed to be a victim of the 1998-1999 conflict in Kosovo. According to Prenk Gjetaj, head of Kosovo government’s commission on missing persons, the exhumed body is fully clothed and was buried in an unmarked grave.

United States Ambassador to Pristina Greg Delawie yesterday visited the multi-ethnic Resource Center for Families of Missing Persons in Kosovo. In addition to a photo published with representatives of the Associations of Families of the Missing and Abducted, the US ambassador on his Twitter account stated that everyone must do more to support the efforts of these families to uncover the fate of the missing.

In Velika Hoča, municipality of Rahovec/Orahovac yesterday was marked the suffering of Serbs of July 1998, when hundreds of Serbs and Roma were kidnapped in the municipality, Serbian media reported.

At the memorial service for the victims and abductees in the municipality of Rahovec/Orahovac, was said that no one still was responsible for the suffering of the Serbs, and that all the hopes for clarifying the crimes are directed at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers, reported Serbian media.

Families of kidnapped and missing Serbs in Kosovo do not have too much expectation from the start of the Special Court's work and indictments, Silvana Marinković from the Association of Families of the Missing Serbs told KIM radio.

Distrust among family members of missing persons is the result of previous experience, says Marinković.

Authorities in Belgrade and Pristina must undertake stronger efforts to shed light on the destiny of the missing persons during the war in Kosovo, International Committee of the Red Cross Committee warned at a round-table discussion in Geneva.

The Association of Families of Kidnapped and Killed in Kosovo and Metohija marked the 19th anniversary of the kidnapping of nine miners of the Belaćevac mine in Kosovo in the memorial room for the Kosovo victims of the Belgrade Palace, KIM radio reported.

Director of the Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Đurić said that the state will help to create a permanent museum for all victims of wars in the territory of the former Yugoslavia.

Bajram Qerkini and Milorad Trifunovic, the first one Albanian and the second a Serb, now have their own office in Pristina. They are both representatives of the families of the missing persons during the war in Kosovo, who will be working under the same roof at the Resource Center of the Missing Persons. They symbolically started their work with an appeal for institutions to engage more on shedding light on the fate of more than 1600 missing persons.

Representatives of the Serbian and Albanian associations of families of kidnapped and killed during the war in Kosovo again appealed to officials in Belgrade, Pristina and international community to take concrete measures to clarify the fate of missing persons, KIM Radio reported.

The Missing persons’ resource center appealed to Belgrade and Pristina as well as to the international community to nominate senior representatives in order to bring the suffering of the missing persons’ families to an end.

The representative of this center, Bajram Çerkini, said that they urge Pristina and Belgrade to use the information that they possess in order to enlighten the fate of the missing.

An association representing families of Serbs killed during the Kosovo war said a display of victims’ photographs outside the Serbian parliament needed protection, and called for a permanent memorial.

The Association of Families of Kidnapped and Murdered Civilians, Soldiers and Policemen in Kosovo from 1998 until 2000 will hang a black ribbon on the huge banner display of Kosovo war victims’ photographs outside the Serbian parliament in Belgrade on Friday to urge the government to do more to protect it.