The contents of the resolution against Dick Marty's report, approved last night by Albania

Albania's Assembly has unanimously voted, with 125 MPs' votes -- the resolution aimed at dismissing charges of trafficking in human organs during the war in Kosovo -- claims stemming from a Council of Europe report.

The hearing was conveyed with exchange of charges between the Socialist and Democratic Party, about their role in the Kosovo war and in proportion to charges brought against former Kosovo Liberation Army leaders.

Albania's prime minister, at the same time chairman of the Socialist Party, which has drafted this draft resolution, Edi Rama, said earlier in the day that through its approval the return of the dignity of the Albanian people and KLA fighters is aimed.

“Albania will address the damaged reputation of the Albanian people and will do so with dignity. Albania's voice will be heard in Strasbourg”, Rama said.

This investigation process has brought no justice, but has made victims the main figures of KLA”, he added.

Albania's Parliamentary Assembly resolution seeks to declare groundless allegations of organ trafficking, and asks the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to review the resolution adopting Swiss Senator Dick Marty's report and the charges raised, which it considers to be “uncontested, untested and uncontested in evidence of the facts”.

Albania's Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe “requires that the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe implement a following report and review of Resolution 1782<11>, which fostered claims on human organs trafficking in Kosovo and Albania during the 1998-1999 war in Kosovo.

The report, drafted by Dick Marty, a Swiss politician and a former member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in 2010, was turned into the reason for establishing Kosovo's Specialised Chambers, a hybrid court before which former senior Kosovo Liberation Army leaders are already being tried on charges of war crimes against Serb civilians and political rivals.

Marty's report, which was adopted with a resolution by the Council of Europe in 2011, contains claims that former KLA leaders were involved in trafficking human organs during the war. The charges filed in Marty's report have been investigated by an American prosecutor, and his findings have not included evidence based that trafficking of organs with human beings occurred during the Kosovo war.

The claims of Marty's report on organ trafficking have not been materialised in either the 2020 indictment against former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci, former Kosovo Assembly Chairman Kadri Veselini, Jakup Krasniqi, and former KLA General Staff member Rexhep Selimi, who denies the charges.

However, Marty's claims have not been rejected by the Council of Europe, while Marty has recently come under Swiss police protection following the discovery that Serbian security structures were planning his murder. / REL