"Instead of calming down tensions and promoting the equality of Serbs and Albanians, you are making moves that go beyond your competence and jurisdiction and are knowingly trying to humiliate Serbia and its leadership," Raskovic Ivic said in a letter to Jessen Petersen. She added that Serbia had issued warrants for the arrests of Qeku and Thaqi based on a comprehensive investigation and ample evidence.
"In a situation when Serbia has met all requests by the Hague tribunal regarding indictments for Kosovo and Metohija at the cost of a great risk of possible political turmoil, you are asking on your Albanian friends' behalf that the minimum of respect for law and justice be disregarded," the letter read.
Five years ago the Serbian authorities issued an arrest warrant for Kosovo Prime Minister Qeku on suspicion of responsibility for the deaths of several hundred non-Albanians killed after the establishment of an international protectorate in Kosovo in June 1999, while Thaqi was accused of terrorism.
The Serbian authorities in 2002 issued an international arrest warrant for Qeku, on the basis of which he was arrested twice, in Ljubljana and Budapest, but was released both times after brief detention.
After the UNMIK chief a few days ago asked Western countries to ignore the international warrant for Qeku's arrest following his election as Kosovo PM, Interpol on Thursday informed its member countries and the UNMIK that Qeku had been removed from Interpol's list of wanted persons.