Here's how President Rugova assessed Ramush Haradinaj (Video)

At the time when Ramush Haradinaj resigned from the position of prime minister after the summons he received from the Hague Tribunal, then-president Ibrahim Rugova praised him highly.

At the time, Rugova had praised Haradinaj as a prominent figure in the fight for freedom and independence. Rugova had also appreciated Haradinaj's gesture of cooperating with justice.

"We greatly appreciate Prime Minister Haradinaj's gesture to cooperate with the Hague Tribunal and I say freely as always, like all of Haradinaj's gestures, this is a great patriotic gesture and we all know that Mr. Haradinaj is a prominent figure and was a prominent figure in the fight for freedom and independence and now also on the political scene in Kosovo," Rugova had declared.