Habit Hajredini, the Kosovo government's official in charge of this problem, presented the action plan on Saturday stating that the document was drafted in compliance with results of analyses which were done by the local authorities, international organisations as well as Kosovo nongovernmental organisations.
According to the analyses, after the end of the war in 1999, Kosovo became a transit route for trafficking in persons, and recently it has been noticed that more and more victims are Kosovans.
Annunziata Ciaravolo from the legal affairs department of the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) said that the mission had also taken significant steps so as to counter the humans trafficking.
According the latest report complied by the local centre for the protection of women and children, from 2002 to 2004 this centre offered assistance to 480 victims of trafficking. Among those victims, 70 percent were underage, and 83 percent of them were from Kosovo. All of them were forced to prostitute themselves.