Albania "will cooperate in organ trafficking case"

Albania's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ilir Meta says the country is willing to cooperate with international institutions.

(KosovoCompromise Staff) Tuesday, March 09, 2010

This came in response to the claims made by some UN officials that Albania is preventing an international investigation into the allegations of human organ trafficking during the 1999 conflict in Kosovo.

Meta said that the Albanian government is determined to complete the process and put an end to all claims about such crimes in Albania "once and for all".

United Nations official Philip Alston accused Albania last month of preventing an international investigation into the allegations of torture, murder and organ trafficking during the 1999 conflict in Kosovo.

Serbian judicial officials state that ethnic Albanian terrorists kidnapped Serbs in Kosovo during the conflict and took them to Albania where they were killed and their organs extracted to be sold on the black market.