Jeremić: Organ trade probe requires UN mandate

Serbian FM Vuk Jeremić stated Saturday at OSCE Parliamentary Assembly session that a probe into organ trade in Kosovo required a UN Security Council mandate.

Izvor: Tanjug

Saturday, 09.07.2011.

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Serbian FM Vuk Jeremic stated Saturday at OSCE Parliamentary Assembly session that a probe into organ trade in Kosovo required a UN Security Council mandate. At a panel discussion dubbed Combat against Illicit Trade in Human Organs, he said that organ trafficking in Kosovo was a horrific practice, unprecedented in Europe's entire brutal war history. Jeremic: Organ trade probe requires UN mandate "Should these claims prove to be true, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) will be accused of an entirely new category of war crimes, or, as defined by the draft resolution, for an extreme crime against humanity," the foreign minister stressed, addressing the participants. "Only an investigation carried out under the UN Security Council mandate can ensure full cooperation of all UN member states. Otherwise, some of the perpetrators of war crimes may escape justice. It would be enough for them to leave Kosovo and go to one of over 180 countries that do not have an extradition agreement with EULEX," Jeremic specified. He said that EULEX's jurisdiction was limited, which was why this serious issue could be resolved only through the UN Security Council mechanism, and the binding force of the UN Charter Chapter VII. Jeremic explained that unless the Security Council got involved, there was a high chance that the perpetrators of these incredibly vicious crimes would go unpunished. “The worst case scenario is that it would devalue the efforts made so far so as to bring the regional reconciliation process to a successful end,” the minister pointed out. However, he expressed his belief that, despite current difficulties justice would eventually win and the truth would come out. The OSCE PA Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions unanimously adopted on Friday the draft resolution on human organ trafficking, proposed by Serbia. Vuk Jeremic (Tanjug, file)

Jeremić: Organ trade probe requires UN mandate

"Should these claims prove to be true, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) will be accused of an entirely new category of war crimes, or, as defined by the draft resolution, for an extreme crime against humanity," the foreign minister stressed, addressing the participants.

"Only an investigation carried out under the UN Security Council mandate can ensure full cooperation of all UN member states. Otherwise, some of the perpetrators of war crimes may escape justice. It would be enough for them to leave Kosovo and go to one of over 180 countries that do not have an extradition agreement with EULEX," Jeremić specified.

He said that EULEX's jurisdiction was limited, which was why this serious issue could be resolved only through the UN Security Council mechanism, and the binding force of the UN Charter Chapter VII.

Jeremić explained that unless the Security Council got involved, there was a high chance that the perpetrators of these incredibly vicious crimes would go unpunished.

“The worst case scenario is that it would devalue the efforts made so far so as to bring the regional reconciliation process to a successful end,” the minister pointed out.

However, he expressed his belief that, despite current difficulties justice would eventually win and the truth would come out.

The OSCE PA Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions unanimously adopted on Friday the draft resolution on human organ trafficking, proposed by Serbia.

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