STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb ---------------------------------------------------------------------- www.serbia-info.com/news/2001-07/13/24473.html - Manuel told the BBC that the right to establish the destiny of the 1,300 missing Serbs who disappeared in the spring of 1999...is the responsibility of the Hague Tribunal.... - Susan Manuel added that if the International Hague War Tribunal... brought charges against Albanian leaders..."it would definitely make political difficulties." - The UNMIK spokesperson added that no charges had so far been brought against Kosovo Albanians, which meant that all political leaders could freely run for office in the upcoming elections.... - Asked whether the fact that Serbian authorities had issued warrants of arrest for...Hashim Thaci and Ramus Hajradinaj, would have any effect on their participation in the elections, Manuel said, "I don't know anything about those warrants....we have not considered that possbility so far," she concluded. Manuel: The Hague to decide destiny of missing Serbs from Kosovo July 13, 2001 London, July 13, 2001 (Tanjug) - The police of the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo-Metohija (UNMIK) and members of the Serbian police (MUP) today start the process of exchanging data and comparing proof material on missing Serbs from Kosovo, UNMIK spokesperson Susan Manuel said. However, Manuel told the BBC that the right to establish the destiny of the 1,300 missing Serbs who disappeared in the spring of 1999, i.e. in the first three months after the international forces had entered Kosovo-Metohija, is the responsibility of the Hague Tribunal for war crimes in the former Yugoslavia. "The Tribunal announced sending teams who would deal with that problem next week", said Manuel. Manuel also said that UNMIK had signed an agreement with the International Missing Persons Bureau on performing DNA tests in order that the bodies be identified. "There are still undug graves, and we have found more than 1,000 dead bodies which have not been identified", she added. Manuel stated that UNMIK "does not want to exclude the possibility that someone could be alive." "Whenever we had information about camps or houses in which Serbs were imprisoned, we sent international police forces and KFOR there but no one has yet been found", said the UNMIK spokesperson. Susan Manuel added that if the International Hague War Tribunal for former Yugoslavia brought charges against Albanian leaders in Kosovo-Metohija, "it would definitely make political difficulties". She said that UNMIK head Hans Haekkerup "had publicly said that UNMIK would fully cooperate with the Hague tribunal and that this cooperation would include the extradition of the accused". The UNMIK spokesperson added that no charges had so far been brought against Kosovo Albanians, which meant that all political leaders could freely run for office in the forthcoming elections in Kosovo-Metohija. Asked whether the fact that Serbian authorities had issued warrants of arrest for leaders of the Democratic Party of Kosovo and the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo, Hashim Tacci and Ramus Hajradinaj, would have any effect on their participation in the elections, Manuel said "I don't know anything about those warrants". "UNMIK has not yet been informed, but it would be interesting to have that information. We have not considered that possibility so far", concluded Manuel. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
