Today was held the meeting of the Governmental Commission for Missing Persons, which has been attended by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice, Prof. Dr. Hajredin Kuçi, who expressed the willingness of the Government of the Republic of Kosovo to help the process of identification of missing persons.  

"On behalf of the Government of the Republic of Kosovo, I guarantee you our full logistical, financial and political support. The issue of missing persons has been a priority for us in our direct contacts with the political actors, the international ones and even with those of Serbia. In this case I mean the legal, institutional and budgetary basis that we have created, by doing a good job coordinated by law. The process has begun to take the desired direction, therefore I thank the Governmental Commission for Missing Persons, and in particular the families of missing persons for the work done.

Minister Kuçi reiterated his suggestion that every municipality should have one officer who would be engaged on missing persons and said that he will send a written request to all the municipality mayors regarding this.

Minister emphasized that keeping contacts with Serbia is very important, since each information would be useful in clarifying the issue of missing persons and in this regard, Minister Kuçi announced that the Government of Kosovo is willing to even pay compensation in case of any accurate information on mass graves. He said that the Government is ready to do research on every part of the country, if there is suspicion of a mass grave, but he added that he expects the same thing from Serbia, too.

At this meeting, Minister Kuçi said that there will be no normalization of relations between Kosovo and Serbia, without the identification of missing persons. He said that this issue has been discussed in the three meetings of the dialogue between Prishtina and Belgrade held in Brussels.