The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, announced on Thursday that preparations have begun for excavations in Kozhle, Serbia, in search of missing persons during the last war in Kosovo.

Speaking about the preparations for excavation in Kozhle, he said that he hopes that this “is not a new attempt by the Serbian state to avoid other locations marked in Serbia from the agenda of excavations”.

“There is no corpse, there is no crime, it was Serbia’s strategy to hide the crimes committed against Albanians in Kosovo. This strategy continues to be implemented even today by the political heirs of the former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic in Belgrade,” said Kurti.

Kurti said that Kosovo has made official requests for the opening of the archive of Brigade 37 of the Yugoslav army, “responsible for many massacres in Kosovo, especially in Drenica”.

He has mentioned that Serbia is obliged to open the archives through an agreement reached on this matter, on May 2 last year in Brussels.