Declaration on Missing Persons; government officials clash with opposition MPs
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The signing of the Declaration on Missing Persons on May 2 in Brussels has become a topic of discussion in today's (Thursday) session of the Assembly of Kosovo. The Government of Kosovo has said that through this declaration, Serbia accepts for the first time the crimes committed during the war in Kosovo, but the opposition MPs criticized Prime Minister Kurti that he was wrong when he agreed to remove the term "persons disappeared by violence", which according to them, it is also recognized in international conventions.

But the deputy prime minister, at the same time chief negotiator of the dialogue with Serbia, Besnik Bislimi said that there are documents of the European Court of Human Rights that refer to the term "forcibly disappeared persons", as it appears in the signed statement.

Bislimi even presented a document that according to him was agreed in 2020 by the Hoti Government, which according to him, has zero concern for missing persons...

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