Covic: Nobody in Serbia has any interest in harming Dick Marty

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No one in Serbia, especially Serbian security services, has any interest in something bad happening to former Council of Europe Special Rapporteur Dick Marty, former head of the Coordination Center for Kosovo and Metohija Nebojsa Covic said today.

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"Clearly, there is now an atmosphere of huge amounts of spinning and manipulation, that is one of the biggest pieces of nonsense that have been put out there, but now court proceedings against Thaci, Veseli and other exotic characters from Kosovo and Metohija are under way in the Hague, where Dick Marty's information is very useful in those indictments," said Covic, commenting on Marty's claims made for the Swiss media that he has been living under police protection for a long time because his life is endangered by "radical elements from Serbian intelligence services."

Marty in 2010 submitted a report regarding the allegations about the existence of the so-called "yellow house" in Albania where Serbs and others kidnapped in Kosovo were taken by the KLA ("Kosovo Liberation Army") to have their organs removed.

Serbia's civilian intelligence agency, BIA, yesterday reacted to the statement made by Marty by sending a letter to the Swiss Federal Intelligence Service, in which BIA strongly condemned and denied malicious claims that the Serbian security services were planning anyone's murder.

Covic now says that the accusations can be defined as coming from the side of "the big Albanian lobbying machinery, with distinct elements in Switzerland."

"After Albania and Kosovo and Metohija, the largest concentration of Albanians is in Switzerland," Covic added.

When asked how he sees Pristina's campaign during the Ukrainian crisis, Covic said that Pristina is "constantly muddying the waters and constantly pretending to be hysterically afraid of Serbia."

"They are sayng unrealistic things, that Serbia will carry out aggression in the area of ​​Kosovo and Metohija. Serbia cannot carry out aggression against a part of its own territory, and if we pay attention the statements made by our officials and the behavior of Serbia, we can see that Serbia holds very firmly to the thesis that it is a key element of stability in the entire Western Balkans region," Covic stressed.

He noted that there are many in the region who are "constantly fixated on Serbia" and one of the reasons, he says, is that they are incapable of solving problems in their own countries.

"These problems will be getting bigger, just like in the whole of Europe, caused by the Russian-American conflict, or the conflict between Russia and NATO in the territory of Ukraine," said Covic.

(Telegraf.rs)