{"id":82765,"date":"2026-02-09T17:45:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=82765"},"modified":"2026-02-09T18:06:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T17:06:03","slug":"eu-by-arresting-kosovo-citizens-serbia-is-violating-the-2015-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/eu-by-arresting-kosovo-citizens-serbia-is-violating-the-2015-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"EU: By Arresting Kosovo Citizens, Serbia Is Violating the 2015 Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union has stated that Serbia\u2019s recent arrest of a veteran of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) constitutes \u201canother violation\u201d of Serbia\u2019s obligations under the 2015 Dialogue and Justice Agreement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder this agreement, Serbia committed not to initiate criminal investigations or prosecutions for crimes allegedly committed in Kosovo, unless such action is requested by Kosovo authorities. Jurisdiction over allegations of war crimes and other serious offenses lies with Kosovo institutions. We call on Serbia to respect its commitments,\u201d a spokesperson for the European Commission told Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty.<\/p>\n<p>On February 5, Serbian authorities arrested Mitehat Llozhani upon his entry into Serbian territory from the border with Croatia. According to the authorities, he is suspected in Belgrade of crimes against the civilian population.<\/p>\n<p>Kosovo\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Diaspora has called for the engagement of the international community regarding this case.<\/p>\n<p>According to Serbia, the arrested individual is suspected of having undergone training as a member of the KLA\u2019s Dukagjin Operational Zone in 1998 and 1999, \u201cafter which he allegedly took part in terrorist attacks against members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Yugoslav Army.\u201d The statement also claims that \u201cas a member of a group commanded by Ramush Haradinaj, he participated in the kidnapping and massacre of police officers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, the Kosovo Liberation Army War Veterans\u2019 Organization told Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty that the arrested man participated in several training sessions in Albania, but there is no information indicating that he was on the front lines in Kosovo.<\/p>\n<p>The deputy chairman of the veterans\u2019 organization, Gazmend Syla, told Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty that Llozhani was found to have his veteran identification card in his pocket during the search conducted by Serbian authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union has stated that Serbia\u2019s recent arrest of a veteran of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) constitutes \u201canother violation\u201d of Serbia\u2019s obligations under the 2015 Dialogue and Justice Agreement. \u201cUnder this agreement, Serbia committed not to initiate criminal investigations or prosecutions for crimes allegedly committed in Kosovo, unless such action is requested by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":82766,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153,1803],"tags":[243,151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - 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