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DP Proposee Resolution Against Serbian Genocide

Members of Parliament of the Democratic Party (DP), led by former Prime Minister and elected Chairman of the DP, Sali Berisha, signed the Resolution against the Serbian genocide in Kosovo and submitted it to the Assembly on Tuesday, May 30. 

This resolution, which was announced on May 10 by MP Tritan Shehu, which asks the Albanian government to declare January 15 the day of remembrance of the massacre of Recak, Genocide against Albanians in Kosovo, is expected to be discussed in Parliament. 

However, this is the second resolution presented by a group of MPs together with Berisha's signature. 

It is also expected to be rejected at the Conference of Chairmen, as happened with the first, because the majority has warned that it will not recognize any document submitted to the Assembly that bears the signature of Sali Berisha. 

Meanwhile, with the same object, a group of PD MPs, headed by the head of the parliamentary group of the Democratic Party (DP), Enkelejd Alibeaj, submitted a Resolution to the Assembly condemning the Serbian genocide in Kosovo. 

"1. Strongly condemns the Serb genocide in Kosovo against the Kosovo Albanian people and all human rights violations; 
2. Holds and acknowledges that, after the occupation of Kosovo by the Serbo-Yugoslav military forces, as well as the bloody war, during the period 1998-1999, Serbian forces committed genocide in Kosovo; 
3. Strongly condemns any tendency to deny the genocide in Kosovo, in order to hide these monstrous crimes against humanity, which terrified the world, against the innocent population of Kosovo; 
4. Invites the state institutions of the Republic of Albania to honor the victims of the genocide in Kosovo; 
5. Invites all states to make additional efforts to bring to justice all those responsible for planning and committing genocide in Kosovo for the fact that there can be no peace without justice; 
6. Requests the Government of the Republic of Albania to cooperate and assist the Government and institutions of the Republic of Kosovo, to present and defend before international justice and other international institutions the facts and legal arguments that prove the genocide against Albanians in Kosovo during the war. 1998-1999. 

Taking initiative from: 
1. Resolution of the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo on the Serb genocide in Kosovo, dated 16 May 2019, as well as credible reports of international organizations on the facts that constitute the Genocide in Kosovo, including: hundreds of collective massacres identified against the vulnerable civilian population in Kosovo, mainly Albanians; 
2. Recognition as genocide of the Srebrenica massacre on 15 July 1995 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, in Judgment of Appeal, Case No.: IT-99-33, 19 April 2004, in the case against the General of the Bosnian Serb Army (URS), Radislav Krstic; 
3. The decision of the appeal of the International Court of Justice on 26 February 2007, which finds that the acts committed in Srebrenica and the surrounding area around 15 July 1995, are acts of genocide committed by the so-called URS soldiers and that these acts should to be called by the real name Genocide", said the resolution submitted earlier in the Parliament.