12th of October will be an important day for Albania and Kosovo at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. Around 3 pm tomorrow, Prime Minister Edi Rama will address the Council of Europe for nearly an hour with a speech in which he will request the revision of Resolution 1782 (2011) and that the accusations of illegal trafficking of human organs during the Kosovo Liberation War be declared unfounded. At the meeting, Albania will report on this request, while a delegation from Tirana will be present. Rama himself had warned of such a request in CoE when Albania approved in the Assembly the Resolution against Dick Marty’s report, since the accusations made by him are totally baseless and have not been proven in all these years and tarnish a just struggle of the people of Kosovo.

Rama requested such a request in the General Assembly of Nations. Rama asked the UN to accept Albania’s request to submit a new report, which opposes Dick Marty’s report with evidence and facts, which according to him has deliberately tarnished the KLA, but also the history of Kosovo itself. Rama said that this report is a fiction and fantasy, but assessed as even more serious the fact that, based on what the Swiss politician wrote in 2011, today the leaders of the KLA are unjustly imprisoned. We recall that in August, Albania officially asked the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to review Resolution 1782 (2011) and declare unfounded the accusations of illegal trafficking of human organs during the Kosovo Liberation War. Prime Minister Edi Rama has published the document that was sent to the KiE and says that Dick Marty’s infamous report cannot enjoy the supporting resolution, so he demands justice for this matter.

Albania asks the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to make a follow-up report and therefore a fundamental revision of Resolution 1782 (2011). Albania reaffirms its steadfast will to help justice and to support any effort aimed at discovering the truth and considers this initiative a meaningful expression of this will.

/Klara Ruci/