Belgrade, March 9 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Interior Minister Zoran Zivkovic has accused today "Ethnic Albanians of all political options" to boycott any contact with Yugoslav and Serbian authorities when it is about getting to the truth about people who went missing in Kosovo and Metohija, regardless their ethnic belonging.

Zivkovic has said, in today's interview to radio "Free Europe", that neither ethnic Albanians from Kosovo nor international forces did not inform on missing ethnic Albanians to whether Yugoslav or Serbian Interior Ministry.

One number of ethnic Albanians charged with terrorism and other criminal offences are in Serb prisons, but "the are not even 3000 of them", but about 600-700, Zivkovic said adding that "they are not absolutely in the same position" as over one thousand missing persons, predominantly Serbs.

"It is known where they (ethnic Albanians) are. They have a treatment which serves as a model to all international conventions from that field, so their lives are not endangered, and their families know where they are", Zivkovic said.

"I would be very happy if these 1027 people (predominantly Serbs) were in prisons and to know that they are in prisons and that they can have lawyers' visits and everything else which belongs to them. Unfortunately, we know nothing about them", Zivkovic stressed and pointed out that there are "different facts on existence of illegal prisons, private prisons, in other words, camps across the entire territory of Kosovo and Albania".

Interior Minister said that he has data that some people are prisoners in certain "health institutions in Prizren, Pec, Pristina and other places in Kosovo".

"It is impossible that 60 000 thousand members of international peacekeeping forces, soldiers and policemen do not know what is going on in Kosovo and if there are, or not private prisons, KLA prisons, because Kosovo is relatively small territory and I think that the international community knows every square meter of that area", Zivkovic said.

From June 1999, when KFOR took the responsibility for the security in Kosovo and Metohija, 1027 persons disappeared, first of all Serbs, and another 500 persons before that, while the Yugoslav army was responsible for the security of that region, Zivkovic said.

He added that, what has been left over is to systemize those lists and send them to "those who can really help in this situation if they want to", and they are the U.N. police and KFOR.

Families of those persons want to know the truth about where are these persons and "I think that it is at least what they deserve", Zivkovic concluded.