SERBIA: KOSOVO'S EX-OSCE CHIEF "CANNOT WALK AWAY UNPUNISHED" OVER RACAK - COVIC
FoNet - February 3, 2004

Belgrade, 3 February: The chief of the Coordination Centre for Kosovo-Metohija, (Serbian Deputy Prime Minister) Nebojsa Covic, today said that the Racak case (large-scale killing in 1999) had to be clarified, as well as that the responsibility of the (former) OSCE mission in Kosovo chief, William Walker, who was the key player in the events that provoked the bombing of Serbia and Montenegro had to be sought.

"Walker cannot walk away unpunished," Covic told a news conference.

Covic said that he expected "every player in the international community" to hold Walker accountable so that he could be punished, because he had provoked the bombing of a country, which also ranks as a war crime.

This process will be long and it will last at least four years - enough to shed light on the Racak case, as well as loopholes in the investigation which was recently published by Finnish pathologist Helena Ranta, Covic emphasized.

He added that the media and the public in Serbia "learn more and more information about Racak every day", especially because there are witnesses to this event who are still alive.
 

Source: FoNet news agency, Belgrade, in Serbian 1351 gmt 3 Feb 04
 

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