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Sentencing of former KLA leaders, analyst: The President of Kosovo has the right to pardon them, but...

2026-09-18 18:07:04Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Sentencing of former KLA leaders, analyst: The President of Kosovo has the right
Fiori Dardha and Melaim Koci

Political analyst, Melaim Koci, was invited to the show "Breaking" with Fiori Dardha on Top News, where he commented on the sentencing of four former KLA leaders, Hashim Thaçi, Kadri Veseli, Rexhep Selimi and Jakup Krasniqi, by the Special Court in The Hague.

According to Koci, the President of Kosovo has the right to pardon convicted persons, given that the Specialist Chambers belong to Kosovo, but this requires cooperation with the US and the EU.

"I think that the eventual future undertaking of the Specialist Chambers will be preceded by actions that will hinder it in its further goals. What are they? Several possibilities are currently in circulation. One is the request for its undoing in the Kosovo Assembly. I am pessimistic, I do not believe that it can be done. Everything that will be done must be done through institutional channels. In the Kosovo Parliament, 2/3 of the votes are needed to undo it and 2/3 of the minorities. So out of 20 Serbs and non-Serbs, 2/3 of them are needed. Whichever one falls, the non-Serb minorities vote, but then the four votes of the Serbs are needed, which is impossible to secure.

There are other possibilities, but I think they all need to be done in coordination with the United States of America. The starting point should be the Department's position and not the voices on the sidelines.

I fundamentally think that the position of the United States of America should be respected, contacted and communicated with.

Last night, for example, the former Dutch ambassador to Kosovo, Robert Bosch, raised a thesis that has not been mentioned so far. He said that if the Specialist Chambers are Kosovo's, and they really are Kosovo's, because they are based in The Hague, they are Kosovo's, then according to the Constitution of Kosovo, the President of Kosovo has the right to pardon convicted persons.

This is one of the possibilities, but it has to be done in coordination with our allies, not on its own. I think it would be a mistake to do it on its own. It has to be done in coordination with the United States, especially the United States, but also with Brussels.

There are other forms. One possibility: about three months ago, President Trump started a vicious campaign against the International Criminal Court, to dismantle it. It's a different court, this has nothing to do with the Specialist Chambers.

But if the United States manages to dismantle the International Criminal Court and this court resembles the International Criminal Court, there would be no point in the existence of the Specialized Chambers if the United States annihilates it.

They have taken the first steps. President Trump has sanctioned four judges who work at the International Criminal Court. He has sanctioned them, meaning he has cut off communication with them. And I do not rule out the possibility that something similar will be done with the Specialist Chambers, because the chief prosecutor is American and the presiding judge is also American.

"So, it is up to the Americans, specifically President Trump, if they want to, to intervene indirectly, by hitting the personnel of the Specialized Chambers with American national procedures. I say, I do not rule it out," said Koci.

 


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