Prime Minister Hashim Thaci told the UN Security Council that Pristina was now ready to set up a new special court to deal with serious allegations against top Kosovo Liberation Army officials.

“We will establish the special court to reveal the truth about the suspicions of war crimes. Kosovo believes in justice,” Thaci told a UN Security Council session on Kosovo on Thursday in New York.

The new court is to be set up in the Netherlands and some senior Kosovo Liberation Army figures are expected to be indicted for alleged crimes committed during and after the 1998-99 war with Serbian forces.

It will hear cases arising from the recent European Union Special Investigative Task Force report which said that unnamed KLA officials would face indictments for “campaign of persecution” against Serbs, Roma and Kosovo Albanians believed to be collaborators with the Belgrade regime.

The alleged crimes include killings, abductions, illegal detentions and sexual violence.

The new court was supposed to begin work in January 2015 but has been delayed because of the political dispute that has left Kosovo without a government since national elections in June.

Thaci assured the UN Security Council that a coalition had been now forged between his PDK party and Kosovo’s other main party, the LDK, which will allow a government to be formed and legislation to be passed to set the special court in motion.

“The PDK and LDK are the two largest parties in the country. They reached a governing agreement. I’d like to confirm to you that next week, we will see the appointment of the Republic of Kosovo’s new institutions,” he said./balkaninsight/