Serbia and Kosovo signed a protocol agreeing to repatriate the remains of people whose bodies have been found after they went missing because of the 1998-99 war.
The Serbian government’s Commission for Missing Persons confirmed on Tuesday that an agreement on the future repatriation of exhumed war victims’ remains has been signed with the Kosovo authorities.
“We have specified ways for mutual cooperation,” the Commission told BIRN.
The head of the Kosovo government’s commission on missing persons, Prenk Gjetaj, also confirmed an agreement paving the way for repatriation of human remains that have been identified.
“The agreement was initially between Serbia and [the UN’s Kosovo mission] UNMIK, and later [EU rule-of-law mission] EULEX, but now the competencies are being passed to locals [Kosovo institutions],” Gjetaj told Kosovo’s public broadcaster RTK on Monday.
Meanwhile Arsim Gerxhaliu, the head of the Forensics Department in Pristina, said he was waiting for the UN to submit findings from a recent test carried out by a ground-penetrating radar to detect human remains in several locations in Serbia and Kosovo.
“There are no results yet, we also mentioned this issue in Belgrade… we will see in the coming days if we will go back to those locations [for exhumations],” Gerxhaliu told RTK.
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