Williams: Special Insistant was Russia if it wasn't founded by Kosovo, it would make the UN

In an interview for “Ora News”, he has said the biggest insistence on the creation of specials was from Russia.

This is a very interesting question. When Dick Marty's report to the Council of Europe was released, a series of European governments insisted on the need for a full criminal investigation. At the time, Russia and Serbia both demanded the establishment of a new UN tribunal to deal with the issue. The US and the European Union believe they had a correct approach. Since the US held responsibility for the rule of law issues in Kosovo, the European Union should oversee the investigation and the judicial process that would follow. And that led to the establishment of the Special Investigation Task Force, which I led as chief prosecutor in Brussels. But even after that, Russia continued to insist on a UN court, and this brought a very serious debate to the UN Security Council. The fact is that the majority supported him, within the Security Council, the establishment of another”, he says.

He confirms that unless this court was voted in the Kosovo Assembly, the same would be established by the UN Security Council.

“If the European Union had not done so, if the EU were unable to conduct an investigation, the case would be returned to the Security Council and there voted to establish a UN court. The United States, the United Kingdom and France made it clear to the Kosovo government that they would not use their veto to block an investigation into the issue. Since these were very serious accusations. So before the Kosovo authorities this dilemma arose. Either allow the European Union to do so under its authority of law in Kosovo and co-operate with it, or the issue goes back to the UN Security Council, where most members would vote to establish a court. The US and the EU did not want this issue removed from EU hands and sent it back to the Security Council. This would have happened if the European scenario” did not apply, he has said in this interview.