"No intelligence operatives in Kosovo"

Interior Minister Ivica Dacic has rejected claims made by the Albanian language media in Pristina over two of the Serbs arrested in Caglavica in Kosovo. The media reports said that the pair were members of the intelligence agency BIA. "No intelligence operatives in Kosovo" "It is absolutely not true that those arrested are members of our security structures. Since 1999, based on the Kumanovo Agreement, MUP, and by that fact the security agencies and the military, do not have a single member in Kosovo and Metohija," Dacic said in Belgrade late on Friday. "This is about a politically motivated campaign, that is supposed to 'rival' what has been talked about many times, not only by the Serb War Crimes Prosecution, but also EULEX, and has even been mentioned in The Hague, and that trafficking of human organs taken from Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija." The minister also denied claims that the Kosovo Albanian services had notified MUP about the case, since, as he said, the Serb police maintains no contacts with that in Kosovo. "In the talks with EULEX representatives I have said that, if they want the situation in Kosovo and Metohija to normalize, it would be good for us to return there, because we would help them," Dacic continued. He added that Serbia's representatives had separately spoken "about all that" with European Commission officials on Friday in Brussels – "about some working arrangements with UNMIK and EULEX, so that by exchange of information and police cooperation we would prevent crime and terrorism". Also in Belgrade, War Crimes Prosecution spokesman Bruno Vekaric said that the Kosovo police (KPS) arrest of three Serbs – two of them from central Serbia, one from Kosovo – was an attempt to "discredit the investigation into the trafficking of human organs taken from Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija during the war". Vekaric said that this attempt to discredit a serious probe which has reached international institutions makes "justice for the victims farther away". The spokesman also said that the prosecution is looking to solve this very important case in a way that is not contrary to international norms. The media and KPS in Kosovo said on Friday that the arrested men were "bribing Kosovo Serbs to say that their organs had been extracted during the conflict in Kosovo." The human organ trafficking investigation is trying to determine the fate of hundreds of Kosovo Serbs who disappeared in the province in 1999. They are believed to have been kidnapped by ethnic Albanians, taken across the border to northern Albania, where their vital organs were extracted, to be sold in the black market.

"No intelligence operatives in Kosovo"

"It is absolutely not true that those arrested are members of our security structures. Since 1999, based on the Kumanovo Agreement, MUP, and by that fact the security agencies and the military, do not have a single member in Kosovo and Metohija," Dačić said in Belgrade late on Friday.

"This is about a politically motivated campaign, that is supposed to 'rival' what has been talked about many times, not only by the Serb War Crimes Prosecution, but also EULEX, and has even been mentioned in The Hague, and that trafficking of human organs taken from Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija."

The minister also denied claims that the Kosovo Albanian services had notified MUP about the case, since, as he said, the Serb police maintains no contacts with that in Kosovo.

"In the talks with EULEX representatives I have said that, if they want the situation in Kosovo and Metohija to normalize, it would be good for us to return there, because we would help them," Dačić continued.

He added that Serbia's representatives had separately spoken "about all that" with European Commission officials on Friday in Brussels – "about some working arrangements with UNMIK and EULEX, so that by exchange of information and police cooperation we would prevent crime and terrorism".

Also in Belgrade, War Crimes Prosecution spokesman Bruno Vekarić said that the Kosovo police (KPS) arrest of three Serbs – two of them from central Serbia, one from Kosovo – was an attempt to "discredit the investigation into the trafficking of human organs taken from Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija during the war".

Vekarić said that this attempt to discredit a serious probe which has reached international institutions makes "justice for the victims farther away".

The spokesman also said that the prosecution is looking to solve this very important case in a way that is not contrary to international norms.

The media and KPS in Kosovo said on Friday that the arrested men were "bribing Kosovo Serbs to say that their organs had been extracted during the conflict in Kosovo."

The human organ trafficking investigation is trying to determine the fate of hundreds of Kosovo Serbs who disappeared in the province in 1999.

They are believed to have been kidnapped by ethnic Albanians, taken across the border to northern Albania, where their vital organs were extracted, to be sold in the black market.