Odalovic responds to accusations from Pristina: Serbia is not hiding mass graves

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Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Veljko Odalovic said today that information appearing in some Albanian media that Serbia is hiding information about mass graves is incorrect because, as he said, the Serbian side has done everything it could and was asked to do on that issue.

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Odalovic told Kosovo Online that Batajnica, Petrovo Selo, Perucac and Rudnica have been processed and that work will be done in Kozarevo these days, while a location near Sjenica will be checked.

He added that several locations in Medvedja, which were presumed to be potential mass graves, have also been checked.

According to the Pristina based Koha, the Serbian side has been keeping secret data on mass graves in the territory of Serbia for more than two decades, while 1,600 people remain missing.

Odalovic says that they checked all information they received.

"I don't know if there is any information that is not available to us as a commission, if there is I would like it to be put into function and I am not running away from doing that, because we are behaving extremely responsibly," said Odalovic

He added that the Serbian side never rejected any request, when it comes to mass graves.

"So far, any information, which came from any source concerning any location, whether in the central part of Serbia or in Kosovo and Metohija, we either directly checked where we have full jurisdiction, or submitted a request through the Working Group to the Pristina side or to the International Committee of the Red Cross to check the locations. That is the mechanism of our work," Odalovic explained.

Last week, leader of the Social Democratic League Nenad Canak spoke for Happy TV about mass graves with bodies of Albanians in Serbia and about statements made by former Minister of Police Dusan Mihajlovic regarding the existence of 16 sites about which a decision was made not to speak about publicly.

"I read what Canak said and I found his statement of his, but I don't know anything about it. Those mentioning it should talk about it, if they know something," said Odalovic.

(Telegraf.rs)