PRISHTINA, Sept. 20 /ATA/ – Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti said on Sunday that his government was committed to supporting efforts to challenge the first-instance verdict against former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) leaders at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague.
Speaking during a visit to the United States, Kurti described the verdict as legally and morally unjust and historically and factually inaccurate.
“A state strategy for the most appropriate and effective response to the first-instance verdict is necessary, both in supporting defence teams during the appeals process and on the diplomatic front,” Kurti wrote on Facebook.
He said Kosovo would work with its international allies to defend what he described as the country’s liberation war against Serbian “propaganda” and to document massacres and other crimes committed by Serbia in Kosovo, which he said Belgrade continued to seek to conceal more than 27 years after the war.
During his first day in New York, Kurti also met members of the Albanian-American diaspora at a discussion titled “Between Here and Home”, organised by ZANI, F’Oda and the Columbia University Albanian Society.
Kurti said discussions covered a range of issues, including economic growth of 5.4% in the first quarter of the year and a decline in unemployment from 26% to 10% during his government’s tenure.
He also acknowledged the need for further improvements in the integrity and performance of Kosovo’s judicial system, which he said remained the subject of criticism in international reports, including those by the European Commission.
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