Examination at Rudnica to continue in spring

BELGRADE - The activities in the examination of the Rudnica gravesite near Raska should continue in late March or early April depending on weather conditions, said Veljko Odalovic, head of the Belgrade delegation in the Working group in charge of cases of people gone missing during the incidents in Kosovo in 1998-1999.

Addressing a news conference following the working group meeting in Belgrade, Odalovic said that plan of activities entails the removal of a building from the site and added that the results of the first analyses should arrive in some ten days.

We will treat the Rudnica site near Raska as a priority location and we expect the works to take at least some 60 work days, according to our plan assessments, Odalovic said and added that this is a rather difficult site to work on.

We will examine everything and everything will be completely transparent, he said. He also expressed the satisfaction that the meeting will also be organised with Clint Williams as head of the EULEX team in charge of human organ trafficking investigation, adding that it could produce a solution to the fate of a number of missing persons.

Odalovic said that the Belgrade delegation insists on continuing the search at Lake Limoc near Gnjilane and in Kosare.

Head of the Pristina delegation Pajazit Nusi said that 31 potential gravesite should be opened this year.

Nusi stated that the report filed by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-mon opened a special international dimension for the search for a solution to the fate of missing persons.

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