Serbian Minister of Justice Zoran Stojkovic met today with UNMIK Department of Justice Director Thomas Monaghan to discuss cooperation in handling legal proceedings in which Serbs are witnesses, working conditions for Serb judges in the province, and the Law on notaries.
Stojkovic proposed that Serbs, who are to testify against ethnic-Albanians accused of war crimes against civilians in Kosovo-Metohija, give their evidence via video-conferencing or at a court in the territory of Serbia, and Monaghan said these are good solutions.
He stressed that the Serbian Ministry of Justice is doing its best to encourage judges in Serbia to take part in processes in Kosovo-Metohija, but he added that the ministry cannot make judges go to the province.
Monaghan informed Stojkovic that IDs of Serbs who left Kosovo-Metohija are being forged and then used to sell Serbs’ property.
Stojkovic asked UNMIK to hand over to Serbia Sefcet Musliu from Bujanovac, who is accused of murders and armed robbery and has been arrested in Pristina.
Stojkovic and Monaghan agreed on the transfer of prisoners from Kosovo-Metohija to Serbia and vice-versa and they expressed the hope that cooperation between the Serbian Justice Ministry and UNMIK will be as successful in the future as it has been so far.