Pristina, January 26 (Tanjug-AP) - Organization for European Security and Cooperation (OSCE) has stated today that the results of an investigation, published last year, show that there are no proofs which would point out to validity of the reports that forces loyal to former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, before withdrawal from Kosovo and Metohija, burnt hundreds of ethnic Albanians' bodies in blast furnaces of lead mine Trepca.

OSCE's statement followed the reaction to yesterday's program of American state National Public Radio, taken over from "American Radio Works", documentary department of state radio of Minnesota in which they broadcasted conversation with people, who claim that they had participated in secret operation in order to hide crimes on the basis of which the charges for war crimes should be brought.

According to the statements of those people, whose last names were not mentioned, only first names, about 1500 bodies of ethnic Albanians were burnt in Trepca.

"Our people have the report on that, but they did not find out not one evidence which would confirm that", OSCE's spokeswoman Clare Trevena said.

"As far as we are concerned, there was no mass killing there", she stressed.

According to the OSCE spokeswoman, neither the team of French forensics, which had "the most modern equipment" and was asked to make an investigation into whether there were any body remains in Trepca, "found anything there."

In the course of the investigation carried out in the second half of 1999, high officials of the French police stated in Kosovo that the Trepca furnaces had been out of work as far back as late March 1999 (just after the beginning of the NATO bombardment of the FRY) and that they had not been used after the Yugoslav security forces' retreat from the province in June 1999.

The results of an ash investigation could not confirm the allegations that the bodies had been burned, they said.

Deputy Prosecutor of the Hague Tribunal Graham Blewitt said that the Tribunal's investigations into Trepca "could not confirm" that bodies had been burned there, but stressed that it is extremely hard to make final conclusions by applying traditional methods of the investigation.