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Kosovo: Haradinaj no longer on Interpol wanted list

Justice Minister announced. Premier is a former UCK leader

08 December, 11:53
(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 However, Serbia has never withdrawn its arrest warrant.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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