Albania and the EULEX mission in Kosovo are poised to sign an agreement on cooperation in investigating allegations of human organ trafficking, Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha has said.

The announcement said that Berisha had fully agreed that an agreement or law that would institutionalize cooperation between the Albanian authorities and EULEX was necessary to establish a clear framework which will help the EU mission fulfill its mandate in the probe, the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network reported on Jan. 27.

Berisha made the statement on Jan. 26, after meeting with John Clint Williamson, who is the chief prosecutor in a special investigative team that has been charged with looking into the allegations voiced in a Council of Europe resolution which claims that the Kosovo Liberation Army harvested organs from captive Serbs during the 1999 war which it later sold.