"Serious accusations, sensationalism"

Former U.S. Balkans envoy Robert Gelbard says that <a href="http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics-article.php?yyyy=2010&mm=12&dd=16&nav_id=71564" class="text-link" target= "_blank">the Marty report</a> on Kosovo organ trafficking "must be investigated because the accusations are very serious".

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Thursday, 23.12.2010.

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Former U.S. Balkans envoy Robert Gelbard says that the Marty report on Kosovo organ trafficking "must be investigated because the accusations are very serious". The Council of Europe rapporteur's document said the Kosovo Albanian KLA kidnapped and murdering Serb civilians in the province for their body parts in 1999 and 2000. "Serious accusations, sensationalism" Gelbard said he believed that the accusations naming ex-KLA and current Kosovo PM Hashim Thaci as the leader of the group which traded in human organs were "not related to the issue of the Kosovo independence". "The accusations against Hashim Thaci, stated in the CoE rapporteur Dick Marty’s report are extremely important and so serious that an investigation about that must be conducted," said Gelbard for Voice of America. He went on to say that the Swiss senator, who brought to light illegal CIA prisons in one of his previous investigations, was "prone to sensationalism", but that Marty's report nevertheless contained "serious accusations that must be investigated". "But these Thaci accusations are not connected the issue of the Kosovo independence." Gelbard also congratulated the Serbian authorities on the fact that despite the claims in the Dick Marty report, they think that the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue should start. "I congratulate the Tadic government, which notices that there are practical issues between two neighboring countries that need to be solved, and which are related to electric energy, telecommunication, traffic, water supply," said he. According to the former U.S. envoy, the Thaci case "should not be an obstacle for the future Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, especially when it comes to the problems important to the people".

"Serious accusations, sensationalism"

Gelbard said he believed that the accusations naming ex-KLA and current Kosovo PM Hashim Thaci as the leader of the group which traded in human organs were "not related to the issue of the Kosovo independence".

"The accusations against Hashim Thaci, stated in the CoE rapporteur Dick Marty’s report are extremely important and so serious that an investigation about that must be conducted," said Gelbard for Voice of America.

He went on to say that the Swiss senator, who brought to light illegal CIA prisons in one of his previous investigations, was "prone to sensationalism", but that Marty's report nevertheless contained "serious accusations that must be investigated".

"But these Thaci accusations are not connected the issue of the Kosovo independence."

Gelbard also congratulated the Serbian authorities on the fact that despite the claims in the Dick Marty report, they think that the Belgrade-Priština dialogue should start.

"I congratulate the Tadić government, which notices that there are practical issues between two neighboring countries that need to be solved, and which are related to electric energy, telecommunication, traffic, water supply," said he.

According to the former U.S. envoy, the Thaci case "should not be an obstacle for the future Belgrade-Priština dialogue, especially when it comes to the problems important to the people".

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