Scepticism to dawn missing issue with Ohrid Agreement

The issue of missing persons in the recent war in Kosovo is mentioned at Article 6 of the basic agreement between Kosovo and Serbia, signed in Ohrid on 18 March this year. The parties reportedly agree to adopt the Declaration of Missing Persons, as negotiated under the dialogue mediated by the European Union, as urgent matter”.

Renowned Serbian Human Rights Activist Natasa Ka persecuted, founder of the Humanitarian Law Fund, in an interview for Radio Kosovo estimates such a declaration is a good document. But he has been persecuting government commissions for missing persons in Kosovo and Serbia.

The “commissions, which are both in Serbia and Kosovo, are not expert commissions, which can whitewash the fate of people found in an effective manner. It is very important to gather all the data, which includes not only for the missing persons, but also for the kidnapped persons and prisoners, and then to publish this data that the Kosovar side has, but also for the Serb side”, said Ka exactly.

Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti said days ago that in the text of the declaration of the undiscovered persons Kosovo and Serbia agreed to on April 4th, I am now reminded of the term “that disappeared by violence. ”
While the European top diplomat, Josep Borrell, had confirmed that the chief negotiators of Kosovo and Serbia, have reached compliance with the declaration of the undiscovered persons, he has not clarified whether the term “disappeared by violence”.

And the director of the Office for Kosovo in Serbia's Government, Petar Petkov, has said that the term has not been accepted by the Serbian side.

Association Chairman “Parents' Office” Bajram Cerkini, in a proposal for Radio Kosovo, says he does not expect the issue of missing persons during the war in Kosovo to be resolved based on this agreement between Kosovo and Serbia.

“A say I expect the decisions of Ohrid to be implemented, or in Brussels, which have even more mixed things, which are also not clear to people found! I don't expect a step! There are 1617 found to postpone the process, as if they have acted so far. Unfortunately, an agreement has been reached, which will take a step forward when I say it takes two steps back and one step ahead of”, Cerkin said.

During the Kosovo war, over 60,000 people have disappeared until thousands of mortar remains have been found in mass cemeterys in Kosovo and Serbia. Still unknown is the fate of some 1,617 missing persons.