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Grenell reveals how “final agreement” between Serbia, Kosovo fell through N. V. O. 4–5 minutes _____ Richard Grenell, the former US special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue and close associate of former US president and incumbent US presidential candidate Donald Trump, recently told an interview how Serbia and Kosovo were on the path to reaching a “final agreement” when the special prosecutor of the court for crimes committed by the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), Jack Smith, interfered. In an interview with Donald Trump Jr., aired on an online platform, Grenell revealed details about special prosecutor Jack Smith and his work. Smith is currently in the spotlight in the US for having filed two federal indictments against Donald Trump for attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election. In Serbia, prosecutor Smith is known for his position as the chief prosecutor at the special court for crimes of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). He gained prominence for issuing indictments against former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and other KLA commanders. Grenell said that the issuing of the indictment against Thaci, whom he described as a “great man” and said US President Joe Biden years ago called him “the George Washington of Kosovo,” was preceded by negotiations on reaching a “final agreement” between Kosovo and Serbia and on “getting rid of the Hague Tribunal court.” “We had a series of prosecutors who couldn’t find anything on Hashim Thaci, who didn’t indict him for decades, and the previous prosecutor before Jack Smith gave up, he said -you know there’s nothing here, I’m closing up and I’m leaving – and the Hague continued to spend American dollars, continued spending another couple of years, Jack Smith researching and trying to get to war criminals,” said Grenell. Grenell emphasized that the indictment against Thaci was issued in June 2020, but only after he informed the Department of Justice that the then Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic were coming to the White House to meet with Donald Trump. We were about to negotiate and sign a historic agreement between the two sides, said Grenell and explained that he told the Department of Justice that the two parties, Kosovo and Serbia, had agreed to get rid of the Hague Tribunal court “that Jack Smith was running.” He added that the individual at the Department of Justice that he spoke with was Bruce Swartz, who told him at the time that prosecutor Jack Smith needed to know because he was in charge of that, and asked Grenell to wait for him to first tell Jack Smith. “I found out two days later that he said no, Jack Smith said: You can’t do that. Within weeks, within three or four weeks, Jack Smith had announced an indictment of President Thaci. Before he came to the White House, President Thaci was hauled off to The Hague and, four years later, President Thaci is still in prison,” said Grenell. The Kosovo Specialist Chambers, a court for the crimes of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), was set up following Dick Marty’s report presented to the Council of Europe in 2011, which detailed numerous crimes committed after the withdrawal of Serbian security forces from Kosovo in 1999. Marty identified several KLA commanders as the orchestrators of abductions and killings of several hundred Serbs, Roma, and “disloyal” Albanians between 1999 and 2000, as well as involvement in illegal organ trafficking. MP of the opposition Party of Freedom and Justice (SSP) Marinika Tepic told a sitting of the Serbian Parliament Security Services Control Committee that Grenell claimed that he, Trump, Vucic and Thaci had “reached a historic agreement that implied the abolition of the court in The Hague for KLA crimes committed against the Serbian population.“ “Don’t you think we should know, and that Serbia should know, whether this is true or if Mr. Grenell is now also spreading false information about Aleksandar Vucic? Let Grenell tell us clearly whether it is true that Vucic made historic agreements to abolish trials of the KLA for crimes against the Serbs. Invite the President of Serbia as well – I have the recording, we can play it for him, it’s a major interview on a public American platform. Even if he avoids coming and giving us an answer, maybe he will at least respond to the journalists,” Tepic said. -- http:www.antic.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SERBIAN NEWS NETWORK" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/senet/134201daa37d%24e15b2fa0%24a4118ee0%24%40gmail.com.
