Special Court Speaker Coming on Mission to Kosovo

Her visit by Kosovo lawyers is not even random, and there is a message in it, writes Indexline.

Lawyer Arianan Koci estimates that this visit will not be spectacular, but it is shown that the time has come for the launch of concrete action by the Special Court and that this is an informational and protocol visit.

He has said in a pronouncement for Indexline that this court is Kosovo-based court, since there is nothing other than the name of Kosovo.

It's not a fact that investigations have been conducted for years. Delays are obvious. Now, the Special Court's legal and logistics infrastructure has been completed, and I believe that after the New Year, criminal proceedings by the defendants will begin. However, I have information that the first indictment was delivered to”, Koci said.

According to him, the Special will not prosecute the president or even the prime minister of Kosovo.

On the basis of the information I have and my analysis, Thaci will not be prosecuted at all. You could eventually call the quality of the witness. However, it is our national interest that anyone who eventually committed crimes will receive due punishment. But, at the same time, we should not allow Serbia's security bodies to manipulate the Special Court with false information, and create situations where innocent people are punished. As for Haradinaj, he has testified to his innocence twice before international justice. Every day of his war, Carla Sel Ponte-led Prosecution has been investigated. Following each investigation has resulted in Haradinaj's making liberation, clean and fair wars, in line with Geneva Convention”, Koci stressed.

Even the prominent lawyer, Tome Gashi, warns significant developments during and after Trandafilova's visit to Kosovo.

He has told Indexline that the Special Court's visit at this time is not random at all.

“This is really its first visit to the Republic of Kosovo, but it will be the most important to it as chairman in particular and as the most important visit of any senior official of this court, because it will come with clear orders for Kosovo leaders, it will clarify the position that will not allow any political or fact barriers to the beginning of the court's work. What she will say to Kosovo leaders will certainly not be seen by us, because it will be said without media presence, at closed meetings”, Gashi has launched.

According to him, the issue remains to be seen who she will meet by Kosovo leaders and how she does not know how her meetings will be interpreted by those who could potentially be indicted in this court very soon.

I know she may not even know who the accused are, because this is the work of the special prosecutor's office in The Hague, Schwendiman, but actually didn't believe that she doesn't know, and that after the meetings there will be speculations on all sides, those officials I'll meet she can use as short-term argument that meeting with the tribunal's head is proof of “sure they won't be charged at the Special Court, said Gashi further

He estimates the prosecution filed charges and that the court president has no obligation to know the names of future indictees.

“Of course her visit warns a hot winter for those who will be charged with the Special Court. In The Hague this hot winter is the gift of Kosovo deputies in 2015 when they voted against the state of Kosovo, against former KLA members and against themselves. Whether winter is near and it will be a hot winter for anyone to leave at The Hague as charged at Special Court”, Gashi has added.