Osman for Irish newspaper: Kosovo willing to wait for years for quality agreement

President Vjosa Osmani has said Kosovo aims to sue Serbia for genocide and wants its leaders to drop trial for crimes committed during the 1998-99 war and for systematic crackdown on Kosovo Albanians who preceded it.

In an interview for the newspaper “The Irish Times”, Osmani has said that justice for 13 thousand people killed -- one million displaced and 1600 missing -- should be the foundation for the agreement required to normalise relations with Serbia, which is the condition for EU membership of both countries, Klan Kosova reports.

The US-educated “Avokat has also accused its counterpart in Belgrade, Aleksandar Vuciq, of sharing Slobodan Milosevic's expansionist thinking, whose nationalist Serbian leader, whose war was catalyst for the wars that destroyed Yugoslavia in 1990, as well as serving as information minister”, continues the paper's writing.

Osmani has told the paper that Kosovo is ready to wait for years if it is necessary for a <x0-cylean agreement” that ensures recognition of Kosovo's independence from Belgrade without any change in its current borders.

Our main “is to speak on behalf of victims and their families. So the issue of missing persons is our number one-x1 priority, Osmani said, who as a teenager traveled hundreds of miles along with many other Kosovars to find security from the brutal oppression of Serbs”.

“Other war damages for all the disasters Serbia caused in Kosovo and not only during the war, but since 1989, when Milosevic came to power and led a system similar to apartheid in our country. And finally justice, which is a prerequisite for peace”.

The paper says Osmani is convinced that these crimes, which she describes as “beyond human imagination”, constitute not only ethnic cleansing, but genocide.

Serbia's will and purpose for the extermination and destruction of a people based on his nationality” was clear.

“So we will prepare as a place to file charges against Serbia whenever we are ready for this, legally and in terms of evidence... Most witnesses are still alive, there's evidence, and that's clear”.