Brussels, 08/01/2002 (Agence Europe) - In a letter sent on 5 January to MEPs and diffused by the elected members of the Lista Bonino (site: http://www.radicalparty.org ), Kosovar Albin Kurti, who was sentenced to 15 months in prison in March 2000 by a "self-proclaimed court of the District of Pristina" and released in November 2001, affirms that, in Serbia, "203 Kosovars are still kept hostage following the policy of brutal harassment that began with Milosevic and which has not yet ended". Mr Kurti reproaches the international community and the European Union in particular with having "done very little in this respect", and notes that, on the side of the EU Council and Commission, "there has been rare pressure, consisting only in raising the question during private meetings with Serb authorities", while "there has never been any public pressure". "All this makes the European Union jointly responsible for the fact that the Kosovars are being kept hostage", decrees Albin Kurti, who, recalling that all the EU Member States jointly signed the Geneva Conventions "which affirm that all prisoners must be immediately released once hostilities cease", asks, "If the European Union does not apply and openly defend these rights, then who will?". He concludes: if the EU made its aid to Yugoslavia and Serbia subject to the release of Kosovar hostages, "the problem would be immediately resolved and (…) those who are accused of non-political crimes would be transferred (…) to prisons in Kosovo".