“Special can't be canceled. The law can be abolished”

Kosovo in recent days faced sharp criticism from international factors following a initiative to abolish the Law for the Special Court. American and European diplomats warned leaders and MPs of serious consequences if the initiative was to pass.

Naim Rashit of the Balkan Policy Group says about Voice of America that the issue of abolishing the Law for the Special Court has already ended and, according to him, needs to be sought out by institutions for this issue to be closed as soon as possible.

I think this process is complete and it's looking for a way out of this process, but it would have been terrifying if it had happened. The court cannot be annulled and the law cannot be abolished, but the entire judicial process must be managed in order to close this burden to the country as soon as possible. As such a process, we will be in trouble by 2020, where eventually one of the internationals and the European Union itself will demand its continuation, all must be done to encourage completion of the process by then and to build a judicial system to return here”, said Mr. Rashi.

Mr. Rashit says attempts to abolish the law for the Special Court have damaged the credibility of the leaders of institutions in the face of international factor.

“It takes a maturity or concrete steps to testify differently and the first should start with finding the way right to complete this agenda so as not to go there, prepare the state for the question of dialogue, complete all internal reforms and prepare for another era of statehood. But the grave in the relationship between our country's leaders and internationals will remain even longer than that, said Mr. Rashi.

Even, analyst Ramush Tahiri says abolishing the court would bring major consequences, since it is an international commitment, according to him.

“Kosovo cannot withdraw unilaterally from international obligations, as soon as Kosovo's Parliament is active in this way without new circumstances or facts it only activates UN Security Council Resolution 1244 and gives the special representative the authority to annul the decisions of Kosovo institutions, even though we have been an independent and sovereign state since 2008, said Mr. Tahiri.

Days ago, the Kosovo Parliament's chairmanship did not have the quorum to appoint parliamentary hearings, where 43 MPs' initiative to abolish the court that will address claims involving former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army in crimes during the war and after the war in Kosovo was expected.

This initiative of MPs, according to parliament's labour observers, has already expired, as according to them the parliamentary regulation stipulates that a motion should be introduced in the agenda within three weeks, since it is submitted.

Since 22 December, when the initiative to abolish the Special Court was launched, international factors have strongly rejected the possibility of these changes.

The idea for abolishing the tribunal followed the signing of a petition by the veterans' organisations of the former Kosovo Liberation Army, through which they are required by parliament to be changed and the law for the Special Court for War Crimes, which they term discriminatory for Kosovo.