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Kosovo: Thaci, 'I will sign bill to abolish UCK Court'

'Constitutional obligation'. Worries all over the world

11 January, 19:10
(ANSA) - BELGRADE - Kosovo's president Hashim Thaci said he will sign a possible revocation bill of the Special Kosovo War Crimes Court if such a provision is approved by Kosovo's parliament. In an interview released to Voice of America's Albanian Service, and published by the Serbian media, Thaci said that he would violate the constitution if he didn't sign the revocation bill. ''This is my legal and constitutional obligation, and I can not reject the will of my deputies'', explained the president, who added that he considered the establishment of the special court an ''historical injustice''. Thaci has at the same time defined as 'excessive' and 'out of place' some worried reactions of the international community for the possible abolition of the special court. Concern was also expressed by the members of a delegation of French and German leaders who met with president Thaci and premier Ramush Haradinaj in Pristina in the last hours. According to local media, the talks focused on the ''huge consequences'' that the decision to abolish the special court established in the Hague and which has the task of judging the crimes committed by the Kosovo Liberation Army, UCK, the Albanian separatist guerrilla that in the late nineties fought in the conflict against the Serbian forces. The US, the EU and Nato have repeatedly expressed strong concern about a possible vote in the Kosovo parliament to abolish the court.

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