In Pristina
"I plead not guilty to all charges which are unsustainable and completely unfounded,"
Hashim Thaçi said on Monday when he first appeared before the special Kosovo court in The Hague, the Netherlands.
The resigning president of Kosovo is indicted, as former political leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK), with war crimes and crimes against humanity perpetrated during the war of independence (1998-1999).
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The former Kosovo Albanian guerrilla leader had learned the news on the plane, as he traveled to the White House to try to seal a deal with his Serbian counterpart, Aleksandar Vucic.
The two former enemies sought to build a final settlement to the conflict between Kosovo and Serbia, which still does not recognize the independence of its former province.
"Thaçi presented himself as the guarantor of stability and the maker of peace with Serbia",
explains a Western diplomat in Pristina
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