UNMIK: No request over Gnjilane Group

UNMIK says that the Belgrade authorities have not yet contacted them in connection with ex-KLA members suspected of war crimes.

Izvor: FoNet

Monday, 29.12.2008.

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UNMIK says that the Belgrade authorities have not yet contacted them in connection with ex-KLA members suspected of war crimes. Three ethnic Albanians believed to have taken part in war crimes against Serb and other non-Albanian civilians in Gnjilane in 1999 now reside in that town, MUP said last week. UNMIK: No request over Gnjilane Group The announcement came after ten other members of the so-called Gnjilane Group were arrested in Presevo last Friday. Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said that Belgrade would ask for UNMIK's assistance in the case. "As far as I know, UNMIK has not yet received any official request from Belgrade," spokesman Russell Geekie told Beta news agency in Pristina on Monday. Asked whether UNMIK will help with the case considering that this mission had transferred its policing and judicial powers to EULEX, Geekie said he would "not speculate on that subject for the time being". "I can give you new information only if and when we receive an official request from Belgrade," said he. Also in Pristina, assembly speaker Jakup Krasniqi, himself formerly of the KLA, reacted for the second time in as many days to demand that the suspects detained in Belgrade be released. He asked for the international community to react in the case. "I think that the international community should increase pressure on the aggressive and repressive policy that incites war, and that Serbia is implementing these days," Krasniqi said, according to a Koha Ditore newspaper report. A former KLA member is brought to Belgrade last Friday (Tanjug)

UNMIK: No request over Gnjilane Group

The announcement came after ten other members of the so-called Gnjilane Group were arrested in Preševo last Friday. Interior Minister Ivica Dačić said that Belgrade would ask for UNMIK's assistance in the case.

"As far as I know, UNMIK has not yet received any official request from Belgrade," spokesman Russell Geekie told Beta news agency in Priština on Monday.

Asked whether UNMIK will help with the case considering that this mission had transferred its policing and judicial powers to EULEX, Geekie said he would "not speculate on that subject for the time being".

"I can give you new information only if and when we receive an official request from Belgrade," said he.

Also in Priština, assembly speaker Jakup Krasniqi, himself formerly of the KLA, reacted for the second time in as many days to demand that the suspects detained in Belgrade be released.

He asked for the international community to react in the case.

"I think that the international community should increase pressure on the aggressive and repressive policy that incites war, and that Serbia is implementing these days," Krasniqi said, according to a Koha Ditore newspaper report.

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