Haradinaj "undeserving as PM" - Kosovo "cannot be state"

Speaking for Tirana, Albania-based broadcaster Ora News, the Swiss jurist also noted that Kosovo "cannot be a state."

Del Ponte explained that Haradinaj has been convicted in the first instance by the Hague war crimes tribunal, while Kosovo does not fulfill the conditions necessary to be a state.

Speaking on the sidelines of a presentation of her book dedicated to the war in Syria, Del Ponte said she "still has a lot of work to do about the war crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia."

She also questioned the existence of Kosovo as a state and said it was "not fair" Haradinaj was its prime minister.

"I mean, Haradinaj does not deserve the officet he hold today, he was sentenced by the ICTY, but unfortunately he was freed by the Chamber of Appeals. But I was no longer the chief prosecutor (at the time). It's hard to see him being sentenced in the first instance, and that Kosovo is now an extraordinary thing," she said.

The Hague Tribunal did not condemn, but twice released Haradinaj, Beta agency said in its report on Monday. After the first trial, Haradinaj was acquitted of crimes in Kosovo in 2008, after which the Appeals Chamber annulled and ordered a new trial, but he was acquitted in the repeated trial as well.

Del Ponte believes that Kosovo had a "privilege" to be recognized as a state, which, in her view, "was rather premature" and the reason why Kosovo "is still uncertain" as far as she is concerned.

The Swiss also spoke about the so-called Yellow House - a location in Albania where kidnapped Serbs and others were allegedly kept before having their vital organs extracted for sale in the black market - a topic she covered in her book "The Hunt: Me and the War Crimes" - and...