Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Vuk Jeremic urged Sunday in El Salvador Latin American and Caribbean states to support Serbia's request independent comprehensive investigation serious allegations of human organ trafficking in Kosovo made in the report by Council of Europe Special Rapporteur Dick Marty.

Addressing the Forty-first General Assembly of the Organization of American States, Jeremic said that Marty's report identifies current holders of the most powerful public positions in Kosovo as the ringleaders of an organized criminal conspiracy involved in money laundering, arms smuggling, and drug trafficking.

It says this group they lead allegedly committed war crimes, and is responsible for kidnapping hundreds of Serb civilians before, during and after the 1999 conflict and that these abductees were sent from Kosovo to secret detention camps in the Republic of Albania. They were then forced into surgery, and left to die. Once extracted, their internal organs were sold on the international black market, Jeremic said.

It is imperative that allegations of these and all other atrocities committed in the context of the Kosovo conflict are not swept under the carpet, he said.

Those responsible must be held accountable through an independent and comprehensive criminal investigation under the auspices of the United Nations, as have all previous war crimes inquiries in the Balkans, he said.

Serbia shall be relentless in its quest to uncover the full truth on human organ trafficking, Jeremic said.