After the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) on Tuesday adopted a resolution calling on Albania and Kosovo to step up a serious investigations into allegations on "illicit trafficking in human organs in Kosovo" in the 1990s, Serbian officials said they expected activities to be taken to establish the truth about those allegations.
Serbian Parliament Speaker Slavica Djukic Dejanovic said the adopted resolution was an important event for launching an investigation into the allegations of inhuman treatment of people and illicit trafficking in human organs in Kosovo.
The Serbian public expects the international community, notably the international Kosovo Force (KFOR) and Eulex, to take appropriate measures so as to get to the truth about those allegations, Djukic Dejanovic said in a statement.
The acting Kosovo President Jakup Krasniqi said that Kosovo was ready to face the resolution.
We are interested in the truth, even if it is painful, he said adding that he hopes that the PACE document would not affect the process of the international recognition of the youngest European state.
Former Kosovo Liberation Army chief-of-staff, Agim Ceku, dismissed the allegations.
"There is no worse feeling that when you are accused of something you haven't done," he said.
The resolution, based on a report compiled by rapporteur Dick Marty and adopted with 169 votes in favour, eight against and 14 abstentions, called on Albania and Kosovo's authorities to step up a serious and independent investigation into secret detention centres where Kosovo Serb and Albanian prisoners had been treated inhumanely during and after the conflict in Kosovo.
The investigation should also cover accusations on trafficking in organs that was taking place at the same time, also on Albanian territory, said the resolution.
The Parliamentary Assembly called on the Albanian authorities and Kosovo's administration to cooperate unreservedly with the EU mission to Kosovo to shed light on the crimes committed in Kosovo.
