Vjosa Osmani: Kosovo should not be pressured into dialogue, as long as Vucic sleeps on mass graves

The President of Kosovo, Vjosa Osmani, called on Wednesday that her country should no longer be pressured in the dialogue mediated by Brussels, while the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, continues to “sleep on the mass graves” of the missing from the last war in Kosovo.

Speaking after the tributes at the Memorial for the Dead on August 30 in Pristina, Osmani said that Serbia is continuing to repeat its crime by hiding the location of the persons who disappeared violently during the 1998-1999 war in Kosovo.

More than 1,600 people still remain missing to this day.

“We hope that the dialogue in Brussels will no longer be a process through which Kosovo will be pressured and injustice will be done to the people of Kosovo, while the face of Vucic, a man who still sleeps on a mass grave, will continue to be unfairly washed away” , Osmani said.

On May 2, the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, and the Serbian President Vucic, signed the Declaration for the Missing, as part of a high-level political dialogue, through which the parties pledged to allow access to all documents in their possession, including those marked as ‘confidential’.

But President Osmani said that the agreement is not being implemented by Serbia, saying that “unfortunately, there are often reasons that other supporting documents are needed, however, the articles of that declaration are very clear, they show what Serbia should do, i.e. open all the archives.”

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.