France Arrests Former Kosovo PM on Serbian Warrant

Kosovo's former prime minister Ramush Haradinaj has been arrested in France in response to an international arrest warrant for war crimes filed by Serbia. Haradinaj was stopped as he flew in from Kosovo's capital, Pristina, according to media reports.

    The former prime minister, a guerrilla fighter during the 1998-99 Kosovo war, was arrested on his arrival at Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg airport, located near the Swiss and German borders, according to sources close to the French investigation.

    Haradinaj served briefly as prime minister of Kosovo in 2004 and 2005, while it was a ward of the United Nations, before being tried and acquitted twice of war crimes at a UN court in The Hague.

    "He was stopped by French authorities based on an arrest warrant issued by Serbia in 2004, which for us is unacceptable," the Kosovo Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Source: QNA