(ANSA) - PRISTINA - Kosovo's prime minister Ramush Haradinaj is
no longer on Interpol wanted list, Kosovo's justice minister
Abelard Tahiri has announced. Haradinaj, former leader of the
Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK, the Albanian separatist guerrilla
who fought against the Serbs during the war in the late
Nineties), was arrested in France, near the border with
Switzerland on January 4, 2917, on the basis of an international
arrest warrant issued by Serbia in 2004, which accuses him of
war crimes. However, the French judiciary rejected Belgrade's
extradition request, and set Haradinaj free late in April. After
the June elections, the former guerrilla leader became the head
of the new government in Pristina. Ramush Haradinaj was
prosecuted for war crimes twice by the International Criminal
Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Hague (ICTY), and was
acquitted in both cases, in 2008 and 2012. However, Serbia has
never withdrawn its arrest warrant. Haradinaj is among the
former UCK fighters who run the risk of being charged by the new
Hague Tribunal for the crimes committed by the UCK, along with
the Kosovar president Hashim Thaci. (ANSA).
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