Topi: Marty’s report trying to keep tense situation in the Balkans

TIRANA, Jan. 12 – President Bamir Topi urged the international community to speed up efforts to check the alleged organ trafficking of Serbs from the Kosovo fighters in Albania.
In an interview to Alsat TV station Topi considered Dick Marty’s report as ‘anachronism’, built from a person who had long declared himself against Kosovo’s independence, a sign that the report aimed at discrediting Kosovo’s image and its institutions.
Topi said the report had invented things that have been probed before. He said that those charges are not to be trusted but, at the same time, they have an impact keeping a tense situation in the region.
He repeated Tirana’s call to fully cooperate with the international authorities to investigate the claims.
Topi also suggested that without first clarifying all the report claims it would not be good that Prishtina and Belgrade started the upcoming talks.
Topi also urged Kosovo political parties to speed up efforts to create the new government after the elections and continue the work of the public institutions.
The president also said that such a report only temporarily negatively affected Kosovo’s image but it could not stop the further recognition of the new state.