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| Assembly of Albania |
The Assembly of Albania announced on Friday that it has officially forwarded to the Council of Europe the document approved on July 21, through which is requested the revision of the Resolution on Kosovo.
Albanian lawmakers on July 21 approved a resolution proposed by the Socialist Party condemning a 2011 Council of Europe report accusing former high-ranking Kosovo Liberation Army guerrillas of war crimes.
Now Albania is asking the main European organization for human rights to review the resolution approved 11 years ago.
"The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe is requested to review Resolution 1782 (2011), declaring unfounded the claims of illegal trafficking of human organs in Albania and/or Kosovo, in light of the developments that have occurred during this decade, the facts, evidence, and updated information, as well as in terms of the commitment, readiness and full cooperation of Albania and Kosovo in the service of the truth and the establishment of justice" - said in the announcement of the Assembly.
The resolution has been sent to the member countries and those with observer status of the Council of Europe, the leaders of the Council of Europe, and the relevant committees of the organization for Political Affairs and Democracy and Legal Affairs and Human Rights.
In the document approved by the Albanian parliament, it is stated that the claims made in Dick Marty's report for the Council of Europe were unfounded. In addition to allegations of war crimes, the report said there were suspicions that human organs had been trafficked by senior figures in the Kosovo Liberation Army.