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: THIRD ANNIVERSARY BETWEEN political uncertainty and very serious charges

Ieri cadeva il terzo anniversario dell'indipendenza kosovara proclamata unilateralmente dalla maggioranza albanese il 17 febbraio del 2008 con il placet di alcune delle maggiori potenze europee (Francia, Germania, Regno Unito e Italia, ma non la Spagna) e mondiali (Usa ma non Russia e Cina). Un anniversario trascorso, però, in un clima politico controversial because of difficulties in forming a new government more than two months after the elections and, more importantly, because of the serious allegations contained in the "CIA report," about three weeks ago approved by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, against Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, shown as a true mafia boss, responsible, among other things, the alleged organ trafficking, organized by members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), which were owned by Thaci and they were victims and non-Serb prisoners during and immediately after the war ended in 1999.

The day before yesterday, Wednesday, Lamberto Zanier , head of the UN mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) has presented its periodic report to the UN Security Council has also considered that "the CIA report." It 'been a rather tense meeting, which saw action in the Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic and his Kosovo counterpart, Vlora Citaku. Jeremic called for an independent criminal investigation into the alleged organ trafficking had mentioned among the first former prosecutor of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, Carla Del Ponte, in his book "The Hunt". A crime which, as is clear from CIA report, "many were in fact aware of the region. According

Belgrade, the UN can not take no to shed light on crimes so heinous, but the clash, the Security Council, has developed particularly over who should lead the investigation: EULEX, the EU's civilian mission in Kosovo, as claimed by the authorities in Pristina, supported by U.S. and Britain, or an ad hoc body (a special tribunal?) like asking the Serbs, with the support of Russia, arguing that EULEX has no mandate to deal with crimes committed outside the borders of Kosovo (the victims of trafficking bodies would in fact been transported in northern Albania). Wednesday the tension at the UN Headquarters was stronger than usual: if the allegations contained in the "CIA report" were founded that would mean that for ten years, Kosovo would be governed by war criminals and criminals whose power would be supported by some of the major Western democracies, the United States in the head, arms and protected by NATO.

Stefano Vaccari, working with Radio Radical the Glass Palace, interviewed Lamberto Zanier which takes stock of the situation.

The interview is available on the website of Radio Radical or directly here