Report KMLDNJ: Yes regional co-operation, but after past is clarified

The Council for Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms in a response after the meeting held between three leaders of Albania, Northern Macedonia and Serbia today in Skopje says there must be regional co-operation, but initially to clarify the past with the victims of Serbian crimes.

Kosovo's <x0 Prime Minister, Mr. Albin Kurti has refused to participate rationally that through this mechanism, efforts are being made to restore and revive a new Yugoslavia. All three “fathers of this Balkan minister have stated that: “cannot be held hostage to the past and that we must build the future of the peoples of the Balkans” and that this “Balkan Müx6> represents the nucleus for the life of this idea. Albania, Northern Macedonia and Serbia have long-term benefits of visa liberalisation even made great steps towards advancing integration processes at the time when Kosovo has been unjustly denied one of the basic human rights, which is considered as a value added by the EU, freedom of movement which is impossible for the fact that Kosovo is the only country in Europe that has not been issued visas, although it has fulfilled all the technical criteria but seems to be conditioned in silence with the achievement of a political agreement with Serbia that is not being publicly said to be<7>

KMLDNY writes that the Republic of Kosovo has no interest in hermetically closing and it does not, but compared to Albania and Northern Macedonia has suffered much in the last war, so it is impossible to overcome this issue without explaining the past.

Serbia is stubborn and arrogantly refusing to face its own criminal past, it does not want to accept the very concrete responsibility and guilt for crimes committed in Kosovo: war crimes and crimes against humanity, until genocide. Serbia is implementing in practice the sense of impunity for its criminals and is designing and producing “crimination” in the ranks of Albanians (victims) by not accepting even the initial symbolic act such as the apology and which is only the first step towards normalisation of relations with Kosovo. To worse, he is openly interfering with the internal affairs of a sovereign and independent state, making efforts to destabilise Kosovo long-term through Serb minority instrumentism in Kosovo”.

KMDLNj, considers victims despite ethnic and religious affiliations, political, cultural, and status in society.

“The same criteria consider necessary even for those who have ordered, have not prevented or committed crimes contrary to international humanitarian law. In a word, there is no future without the past being clarified, there is no future without ensuring justice for victims and the responsibility of those who are proven to have committed crimes”.

KMLDNJ says it appears that the past Albania and North Macedonia is easily acceptable, while for Kosovo it is impossible to accept in this form and content.

“Madje, if the Government of Kosovo does not meet the constitutional obligation to ensure justice for all victims and responsibility for all criminals will be identified as violating human rights for failing to implement law that clearly for Albania and Northern Macedonia does not pose any legal or moral problems at all. Of all of this, Serbia just rubs its hands as Pont Pilate for crimes committed in Kosovo and the spaces of the former Yugoslavia”.