Commission for Undiscovered Willing to Join Talks With Serbia

From the commission, they say Serbia, despite information it has not expressed willing to co-operate with the Kosovo side.

The leader of the Government Commission's Unit for Missing Persons, Counterfeit Gara, said pressure is mandatory for Serbia to be more cooperative.

The question of resolving the fate of the found persons in Kosovo has not been dedicated to the great importance on the part of the Kosovo government and the International Community. Also, Serbia's state still hesitates to co-operate with Kosovo in improving this issue, where only international pressure forces Serbia to be more co-operative.

“What has been disturbing during this time has been a lack of willingness by the Serbian side to be more co-operative in this process, in this case has been necessary the pressure and greater commitment of the International Community in this process, in particular I am interpreting in Western or EU states and other states like the US, the United Kingdom, as opportunities to increase pressure on the Serbian side to be more co-operative in the process, because the current experiences show that with only one pressure from the International Community, Serbia can be co-operative, Garaón said.

He said the opening of the former Yugoslav Army archives on Serbia's part would greatly contribute to the case of missing persons.

Serbia's “Gatibility to be more willing in this process is necessary, the pressure Serbia has to make to open the archives of the former Yugoslav Army, since it has now been confirmed that there has ever been a dilemma that sufficient data and information in the sense that it could contribute to solving all missing persons' cases, currently 1647 people who continue to be counted as missing persons”, he said.

He showed that radar detects anomalies in the horizontal layer of soil, but it does not necessarily detect mortar remains or massive illegal cemeteries.

“Anomalies can be treated as possible locations, always based on other data or other circumstances, it is not possible for radar to detect mortore waste, site of illegal cemetery. Radari represents anomalies and they should be meant as changes to the horizontal layer of soil, changes then whether they relate to the existence of any cemetery”, said Gara. The race said that during the 3 months of 2019 excavations have been conducted at 6 locations, where 2 of them have resulted in successful mortar waste.

“With improved weather conditions during this time period of excavations have been realised at 6 locations, including the location of Istog, Landovica of Prizren, Piscot of Gjakova, Kaliqan of Istog, Sankovc of Drensas and Chisnica, of these six locations that were processed during these 3 months in 2 locations have resulted in the findings of the mortore remains and the exhumation of those mortore remains”, Gara added.

Jahja Luka from the Government Commission for the Undiscovered Persons said that as regards the issue of the fate of the missing, past governments in Kosovo have not done enough, but Haradinaj's government has a priority on the issue, Online Economy reports.

“20 years is not behind any significant commitment to whitewashing the fate of our people. Rather, it was the work of the commission -- of individual people, of family members, but one thing has to be said that as Prime Minister Haradinaj's arrival this is one of the main topics”, Luka said. He said they are willing as commission to join the state delegation in talks with Serbia when it will be dialogue for the unemployed.

“We are hoping that the delegation will consider whether the need to be part of the delegation is presented. We've proven that Government has its own people working now and how many years in this field and it doesn't need any Lamia experts who had to come here another six months would lose them to work that we've done so far. It is good for one of the family members to be present why not”, Luqa said.

Luka said that so far there is good co-operation with the state delegation, which will represent Kosovo in Brussels. He supported the request of Gjakova's mothers who had long ago demanded that they be part of the delegation when it is discussed in Brussels on the issue of the missing and the crimes committed.