Source: Emg.rs, Tanjug - 23. February 2011
Arlacchi suggested that after Dick Marty's report, the EP should appoint a special rapporteur on behalf of the EU, who would investigate EULEX's work. "Based on my experience, based on the information I have on Kosovo and based on Dick Marty's report, I claim that Kosovo is a mafia state", Arlacchi stressed.
It is shameful how Europe and the U.S. turned a blind eye to the criminal activities of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), and in a sense they wanted a war in Kosovo, Italian MP and member of the European Parliament (EP) Committee on Foreign Affairs Pino Arlacchi stated for the Frankfurt-based daily in Serbian language Vesti.
Kosovo is a mafia state, stressed Arlacchi, a sociologist and author of several books on mafia.
He was also a UN Under-Secretary-General from 1997-2002 and executive director of UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
Arlacchi suggested that after Dick Marty's report, the EP should appoint a special rapporteur on behalf of the EU, who would investigate EULEX's work.
Based on my experience, based on the information I have on Kosovo and based on Dick Marty's report, I claim that Kosovo is a mafia state, Arlacchi stressed.
When I worked at the UN in 1999 as UNODC Executive Director, I issued a warrant for the situation in Kosovo to be investigated and I submitted the internal report to the UN General Assembly and Secretary General Kofi Annan at the end of the same year.
The image presented by the report was precisely what one can see today - the same structures, the same people, the same disgraceful situation. It is shameful how Europe and the U.S. dealed with that problem.
They wanted political results and in a sense a war on that territory, and they turned a blind eye to the KLA's criminal activities, he underscored.
These were confidential reports indicating the same things that Marty's report did, he added.
We already have a report on Kosovo, which is a regular report on various issues. The topic of the report could be EULEX and the fact that not even three years later did their work yield any results, Arlacchi explained.
The first goal is to conduct an investigation so as not to continue making the same mistakes, Arlacchi pointed out.
Non sono una persona complicata. La mia vita pubblica ruota intorno a due cose: il tentativo di capire ciò che mi circonda, da sociologo, e il tentativo di costruire un mondo più decente, da intellettuale e militante politico.
