21 minutes agoKurti meet with Emir Suljagic: Serbia Must Face Its Past
Periskopi(2 years ago)
(2 years ago)Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti welcomed the meeting of Emir Suljagiić, director of the Srebrenica Memorial Centre of genocide, which is also the survivor of this genocide committed by Serbian forces in July 1995, in which more than 8,000 Bosniaks were killed. He welcomed them to Kosovo, on the 25th anniversary of [...]
He welcomed them to Kosovo, on the 25th anniversary of our country's liberation and the end of Serbia's ethnic cleansing and genocide in Kosovo.
“Praising the approval of the UN resolution on July 11th as the International Day of Memorial of the Srebrenica genocide, the prime minister recalled that the Parliament of the Republic of Kosovo approved in July 2021 a special resolution condemning the Serbian genocide in Srebrenica.
Co-operation between the Institute for Research and Documentation of crimes committed during the war in Kosovo and the Srebrenica Memorial Centre was praised and the memorandum of co-operation expected to be signed”, reportedly in the announcement made by the prime minister's office.
In addition, the communiqué reportedly stressed the government's commitment to comprehensive transitional justice processes, as well as the finalisation of the Republic of Kosovo's First Transitional Justice Strategy.
“said that for peace in the Balkans, Serbia must face its past and be held responsible for crimes, massacres and genocides committed, and bring to justice the responsibilities of crimes committed during the war. Thanks to the prime minister for the meeting, Suljagiić expressed gratitude for the warm hospitality being extended to him in Kosovo, as well as renewed the potential for co-operation between Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina”.
