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The President of Kosovo, Vjosa Osmani, has accused Vucic of continuing to violate the Brussels agreement between the two countries on missing persons, ignoring Kosovo's requests to open the archives of the Serbian police and army regarding thousands of persons who disappeared during the war of 1998/ 1999 in Kosovo.
After the tributes at the Memorial for the missing in Pristina, Osmani said that "even today, Serbia continues to commit a double crime, because it once committed the crime, and then did its best to hide it, hiding the traces of the crime even 25 years later late".
In Kosovo, today is the National Day of the Forced Disappeared during the war. About 6,000 people disappeared during the last war, of which over 1,600 are still unaccounted for.
"Despite the fact that the chairman of the government commission, Andin Hoti, has sent letters to Serbia several times, asking them to...open the archives for the data of the police and military brigades, for which there is evidence that they participated in the massacres but even in operations after the war to hide troops, Serbia still does not respond to these demands and continues to violate this agreement reached in Brussels", said Osmani.
Kosovo and Serbia, a year ago, agreed on the Joint Declaration for missing persons within the dialogue for the normalization of relations mediated by the European Union.
The promises that were made with this statement are: full access to reliable information, including those with classified status; making available all relevant documents for determining the fate of missing persons, as well as joint work through a commission chaired by the European Union.
A year later, none of this in practice, all on paper.
The spokesperson of the EU, Peter Stano, confirmed that the joint statement, approved by the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti and the President of Serbia, Aleksandër Vucic in May 2023, "is not being implemented yet".
Stano emphasized that the declaration is not legally binding, but added that the EU requires the parties to engage "constructively" within the dialogue, to reach agreement on the terms of reference.
During the war in Kosovo, about 13,000 people were killed, over 800,000 were displaced, while about 6,000 disappeared, of which about 1,600 are still missing. Hundreds of bodies of murdered Kosovo Albanians have been found in mass graves in Serbia.
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