Internationals Failed to Resolve Special

The Kosovo Parliament's Headship Meeting, warned of being held today and expected to proceed to the Parliament on the issue of abolishing the Law for the Special Court, failed to be held because there was no quorum.

At the meeting, there were, besides the head of the Parliament, Kadri Veselin, Xhavit Haliti from the PDK, Avdullah Hoti and Mejtim Shala from the LDK, and later arrived Ahmet Isufi of the AAK, but that members of Vetevendosje and minority members were absent, which caused the gathering to fail.

Shortly before this meeting began, US Ambassador to Kosovo Greg Delawi, through an address, said that the debacle of the Special Court would have serious consequences for those who vote on it.

Allow me to be clear, the MPs who support this initiative and the politicians who go ahead, despite their denials, will undergo specific and harsh consequences. They know this because we told them”, Delawi said, reports Koha.net.

But, Ahmet Isufi, chief of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo parliamentary Group, after failing to gather the leadership, said his party's stance is unchanged even despite the US Ambassador's statement shortly before the start of the meeting.

In the question of how Ambassador Greg Delawi's statements to the AAK comment, that if the Special is remade there will be serious consequences, Isufi said they do not comment on these statements.

The special court undermines Kosovo and the KLA war. Our attitude is clear from the beginning. We have been against it even when this Law was voted and we are even now”, Isufi said, stressing that the AAK is against this Court because it considers acting only against an ethnicity, which is Albanians, and thus damages Kosovo's image.

But, Ambassador Delawi, in his address, said the Special Court is not about justice for a state, for an army or an ethnic group, about justice for individual victims”.

Kosovo fought a war in 1999 and we stood by your side, we stayed with the victims, we stood beside justice. No one will be able to rewrite history books for the campaign of cruel crimes of the former Yugoslav Republic. But the reality is that some individuals who have been fighting for the right cause of Kosovo's freedom have committed serious crimes against others, for which they should be accountable, and that's why Special Court” has been created, the US ambassador declared at this conference with journalists, Koha.net reports.

The chief of the Parliamentary Group of the Democratic League of Kosovo, Avdullah Hoti, following the failure of the chairmanship meeting, in its proposal before the media, criticised the ruling coalition for the stalleds being made.

He has acknowledged that he has been on the agenda and the request for the abolition of the Special Court, which he said the LDK's GP is against.

“We went to meetings to participate in the appointment of the next sessions based on the agenda. Normally for the point of abolishing the Special Court, you know the LDK's position, we'll be on our own level at that point and we'll release the collection”, Hoti said.

Against abolishing the Special Law has also been declared the special rapporteur in the European Parliament for Kosovo, Igor Sholtes, who said the abolition of the Special Court will isolate Pristina.

He explained that such a move would convey very bad signs for respecting international law and international obligations, and would have consequences for further European Union negotiations with Kosovo.

Days ago, a delegation consisting of state officials from Germany and France remained in Pristina, who held separate meetings with state officials, and from whom they demanded that they be careful in the matter, therefore not to proceed with abolishing the Law for the Special Court.

So far, Vetevendosje, AAK and Kosovo Initiative have come out against the Special Court, while the AKR's LDK supports such a court. The PDK is still divided over the issue after its leader, Kadri Veseli, through a public letter, said the Special Court would happen and could not stop, while MPs from this party oppose it.

Even at last attempt, on the night of December 22nd of last year to call a session to abolish the Special Law, the Parliament's Headship failed to gather in a shortage of quorum. Even that night, US and British ambassadors held meetings with parliamentary political parties to convince them not to proceed with hearings where the abolition of the Special is expected to be voted.