Kadri Wessel: I received an invitation from Special Court, proud of the KLA

Chairman of the Republic of Kosovo Assembly, at once leader of PDK, Kadri Veselini, has said today that it has accepted an invitation from the Specialised Chambers to be interviewed on December 4th in The Hague.

He said he would respond positively to this invitation.

I've been committed to the good of Kosovo all my life, and I've done this entirely on voluntary grounds and with the highest dedication. I started as a child, a primary school student in Mitrovica, with the April 1981 demonstrations as participants and then most of them as organisers and directors. In the mid-1980s, I have entered the ideals of patriotic, anti-Yugoslav organisations to oppose captivity and work for freedom. I was blessed to be one of its ideas and founders, freedom fighter until the liberation of the country”, Wessel said at the conference before journalists.

Kadri Wessel's full speech:

Hello, everyone.

As one of the leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army, I have accepted today an invitation from Specialised Chambers to interview The Hague on December 4th. As I vowed, that the moment I had such an invitation, I would make it public. My generation, like many other generations, has experienced the severe oppression of our nation.

We have not agreed with that situation, and I am proud to have responded to the country's call for freedom of nation. All my life I have been committed to the good of Kosovo, and I have done this entirely on voluntary grounds and with the highest dedication.

I started as a child, a primary school student in Mitrovica, with the April 1981 demonstrations as participants and then most of them as organisers and directors. In the mid-1980s, I have entered the ideals of patriotic, anti-Yugoslav organisations to oppose captivity and work for freedom.

The era of the Kosovo Liberation Army is the proudest part of my life. I have been blessed to be one of its ideas and founders, a freedom fighter until the liberation of the country.

From April 1999 until June 2008, I have led the Kosovo Information Service. I have carried all these commitments with honor and full responsibility, with extraordinary pride.

Dear citizens,

Our nation's freedom efforts have been our life.

We all reached freedom together, and the Kosovo Liberation Army is its symbol. A fact must be acknowledged, however, that our people's righteous struggle for freedom has been constantly under attack. Since the postwar, this is the fifth process of justice to which this war is subject.

Starting with UNMIK, and continuing with The Hague tribunal, EULEX, local justice, and now the Special Court. I don't think there was such an example in the history of liberation movements. Even this process should have epilogue, based on truth, facts and justice, and which does not harm the state of Kosovo in eternity. I am convinced that this court will also prove the fair fight of the Kosovo Liberation Army, but that it will stop hitting the truth of our people and the Kosovo Liberation Army.

I will respond to this invitation on December 4th.