Minister of Labour and Social Policy and President of the National Council for Cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Rasim Ljajic will visit Strasbourg on 20 December where he will meet with top officials of the Council of Europe to discuss the Report of Special Rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Dick Marty.

Ljajic will meet with Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe Maud de Boer-Buquicchio to discuss further steps of the Council of Europe following Marty’s report on trafficking in human organs in Kosovo-Metohija after the 1999 NATO bombing.

In Strasbourg, the Minister will also speak with the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg.

The report of Dick Marty affirms that in the aftermath of NATO bombing that took place in 1999 and 2000, a large number of Serbs and other non-Albanians from the territory of Kosovo-Metohija were killed and their organs were then sold on black markets of some countries, reads a statement of the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy.