Rama: We collected signatures to challenge Dick Marty's report in the Council of Europe

Albanian Prime Minister, Edi Rama, announced today that Albania had collected signatures in the Council of Europe Assembly for a new resolution, which would challenge Dick Marty's resolution from 2011, in which the KLA had been accused of human organ trafficking.

Rama stated on Facebook that in Marty’s resolution from 2011, "without any facts, terrible accusations were made against the KLA for human organ trafficking." He assessed that the path to justice for the so-called Kosovo would be difficult.

"The path of justice for the spilled blood and freedom, for the martyrs of the KLA and the heroes who are in The Hague, will be long and painful, even offensive, but justice will triumph in the end, because there is no force in the world that will call the war of liberation criminal," Rama said.

In 2011, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted the report of the special rapporteur of the Council of Europe, Dick Marty, and a resolution on human organ trafficking in the Republic of Kosovo, in which it had called for an international investigation.

Last year, the Albanian Parliament adopted a resolution disputing the claims of Dick Marty's report on the killing of people and organ trafficking in Albania and Kosovo, which Tirana forwarded to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.