Kosovo launches preparations for closing EULEX mission

Kosovo launches preparations for closing the EU mission in Kosovo, EULEX.

The justice ministry has intensified steps for carrying competencies in terms of Legal Medicine from EULEX to Kosovo institutions, KTV reports.

The government has already approved its application for the establishment of the Legal Medicine Institute.

In an interview for KTV, Minister Abelard Tahiri has pledged to select adequate people at the helm of the Institute and that there will be a priority work for the transfer of capacities from the Legal Medicine Department to the locals.

Organogram foresees the growth of the staff of this Institute for 10 people, until it continues to take advantage of EULEX's capacities to experts and anthropologists, until the completion of the education of 2 such experts, which are being enabled by the United Kingdom.

The minister has also spoken of a co-ordination between the Institute of Legal Medicine and the Office for Undiscovered in the Government of Kosovo, while stressing that the role of the latter is political and can by no means replace the role of the Institute on the exhumation issue.

Department for Legal Medicine. EULEX was currently invested under the Law Medicine Institute, based on the Law Medicine Law Law.

Its transitional provisions provided that EULEX experts work together with local residents, with the aim of developing local capacities and ensuring that the Law Medicine Institute has sufficient well trained experts capable of providing forensic expertise, meeting international standards and best European practices.