Declaration on Missing Persons; government officials clash with opposition MPs
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...