The fate of the missing remains hostage to political game Serbia blocks, EU shuts down

Six meetings of the Kosovo-Serbia Joint Commission for those who disappeared during the war, under the chairmanship of the European Union, should be held by June.

But the first meeting has not yet been held, in spite of the dining for reference terms in December of last year.

On January 15th, rejecting participation, Serbia unable to operate the non-political commission and since then there have been no further reports of new efforts.

The European Union now repeats the same answer for the time when the first meeting can be held.

“We will communicate at the right time”, said by the European Union

Blocking the commission's work from Serbia, according to Serbia's deputy prime minister's cabinet in office for dialogue Besnik Bislimi “deamed the structural approach and the lack of will to whiteen the fate of missing persons by violence”.

“We are in constant contact with Sorensen on this issue, which requires the EU's commitment but cannot move forward without Serbia's reflection. The failure to meet the terms of reference from official Belgrade is a clear violation of last December's agreement, while the lack of delay ahead of such an urgent issue of humanitarian character as expressed in the Ohrid Implementation Annex, is an indication of Serbia's refusal to this annex of the Basic Agreement and their opposition to the normalisation of good neighbourly relations”, Kleman Kadiu, deputy prime minister for dialogue, has declared.
After saying Serbia in 2011 had signed the UN convention for protection from extinction and does not apply it, Professor Dritaro Arifi stressed that when there is no pressure the neighbouring state ignores everything, reports TVDukagini, broadcast Periscope.

There's a total neglect from the European Union to dealing with humanitarian values, so that's the problem. And knowing a state such as Serbia that does not respect neither international agreements nor human values and humanitarian values, I find it impossible to implement such an agreement in terms of what the Serbian state is found”, Drilro Arifi, professor, has said.

Professor Arifi does not expect positive developments, while citing Serbia politicising each topic.

“Every technical problem with Serbia is on the political level, so it is the level of war that affects everything. Kosovo cannot do more. Kosovo has, to some extent, said, the best it can do. But political and legal pressure can only make the European Union, because it is fascinating, but it is also the biggest sponsor of the Western Balkan countries, Kosovo, Serbia, respectively. And if the EU maintains a neutrality in the face of the humanitarian issue, I see it as an issue that will not be resolved for a very long time again”, Dr. Arfi, professor, said.

With the basic agreement and Ohrid appendix, the issue of missing persons had been named humanitarian and urgently needed to be resolved.

In this context, Albin Kurti and Aleksandar Vuciq agreed on May 2nd 2023 for a joint declaration of the missing, but which remained only on paper. /Periscope/