Prime Minister Edi Rama went live on video from Brussels, where he said he is going to The Hague to meet former Kosovo president Hashim Thaçi.
Rama expressed his concern about the way international justice is functioning towards former KLA leaders and stressed that the process is far from democratic standards and respect for human rights.
In this context, Rama assesses that any future decision should reflect on democratic standards and the integrity of international institutions.
He underlined that support for Thaçi is a clear sign of Albania's commitment to justice and democracy.
"I am on my way to The Hague where I will meet some time after the previous meeting with the KLA commander, the president of Kosovo, who was taken from his office and has been held hostage for years in an international justice cell. To the great shame of all those who sponsor that kind of justice, where violations of standards, violations of human rights, violations of all norms of due process are the only norm that has characterized this farce. And yet, a president democratically elected by the people, along with three comrades who have covered important tasks in Kosovo, are being held in confinement, isolated," Rama declared.
He added that now that the presentation of the prosecution's pseudo-evidence has ended and the parade of ridiculous witnesses brought into the international courtroom by the prosecution has ended, as well as the other serious testimonies of defense witnesses, the verdict is awaited.
"I wish and express that next year will be the year of closing the curtain on this absurd theater of international justice and the exit from the brutal isolation of Thaçi and his comrades. I wish that the democratic countries that sponsor this court will reflect on the low standards, on the level below the red lines of justice and democracy. This is what has been happening for years to people whose only fault is that they rebelled against a regime, their only fault is that they took up arms to defend their freedom and human dignity, their undeniable right to live as equal people on this earth, under the same sun, and not as a social group persecuted because of their ethnicity in a dictatorship", said Prime Minister Rama.
Rama said that this is the truth and no one can shake it.
"An absurd hammer of international justice has left a mark when we say in Albanian: fare du ate. I believe that justice will prevail, and here there are not two or three rights, there is only one right and it is the right eternally blessed with the blood of heroes, martyrs, the unspeakable pain of persecuted and maimed mothers, sisters, women and girls during one of the darkest periods for Europe itself, in the heart of Europe," he said. /Euronews/
