Thaci seeks not to issue special files

He's the first person the Special Prosecutor's Office announced he's delivered an indictment.

According to this report, President Hashim Thaci is involved in many war crimes and obstruction of justice.

Thaci's name was mentioned another day ago in files that published the Association of Veterans in the KLA War.

And for the flow of this information, the president of Kosovo himself has commented.

In a response to T7, Hashim Thaci has said recent developments concerning special files are extremely disturbing.

The recent developments where there is alleged depletion of information classified from these institutions are extremely disturbing because they harm the main reason on which the shift of these institutions outside Kosovo was established. If it proves classified information that is authentic, I expect that the relevant authorities of these institutions will conduct criminal investigations about this event and that the persons responsible for this flow of classified information, whoever they are, will be brought to justice”, Thaci is expressed in T7.

Thaci also criticises UCK's OVL's involvement in all of this.

According to the president, this could go against potential indictees.

“The inclusion of the KLA war organisations in this matter by misusing their public stand against the Specialised Chambers and the Specialised Prosecutor's Office there is danger of distracting attention from the need to investigate individuals responsible for this leak of classified”, Thaci said.

The first state has invited the Dallas War Organizations to stop publishing these files.

That, since according to Hashim Thaci, this situation could go to harm the potential defendants.

This flow of classified information could prejudge criminal procedures that could be conducted there and at the expense of defendants. That is because this event could (bad) be used as a pretext for limiting the rights of the defendants during the criminal procedure, whether by limiting them the right to movement or limiting them to the right to question in full and inclusive terms of witnesses against them”, Thaci said.

Besides, Kosovo's president has also spoken on the issue of the Special Court's mandate.

He has welcomed the fact that Parliament Speaker Vjosa Osmani has followed his proposed amendment to the Constitutional College of Specialised Chambers.

According to him, it is up to the assembly to determine where to send this amendment to Kosovo or The Hague for examination.

While Thaci is convinced that this amendment does not diminish guaranteed constitutional freedoms in chapter II of the country's highest legal act.

“In this case, since the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Kosovo only once ascertained that the institution for the establishment of Specialised Chambers and the Specialised Prosecutor's Office does not diminish constitutional rights and freedoms prior to Chapter II of the Constitution, it is clear that neither my mandate for extending the N8k's mandate diminishes the constitutional rights and freedoms prior to Chapter II of Constitution”, Thaci added.

Thaci, has demanded that the constitutional amendment, for extending the mandate of the Specialised Chambers to be approved in the Assembly, once the formal screening procedures are passed near the Constitutional College of Specialised Chambers.