PACE approved the approval of self-proclaimed Kosovo's membership in the Council of Europe

The Political Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) approved membership in the organization of the self-proclaimed Republic of Kosovo.

An official PACE statement said that the committee reviewed a report on the unrecognized quasi-state entity's request for admission to the organization, after which it recommended approving Kosovo's accession to the Council. The next step in the process is a plenary debate scheduled for April 18 and a vote by the full Assembly.

Earlier, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic reported that he received serious news, directly threatening the vital national interests of both Serbia and the Republika Srpska. Apparently, the information that Vučić spoke about concerns Kosovo’s possible membership in PACE, which would mean de facto recognition of the self-proclaimed republic by the European Union and strengthening the sovereignty of Kosovo and Metohija.

At the same time, Belgrade cannot agree to this, since without fulfilling Serbia’s demands regarding the creation of a community of Serbian sovereignties, the security of the ethnic Serbs living in Kosovo will inevitably be at risk.

The West traditionally uses the issue of possible recognition of the sovereignty and statehood of Kosovo as the most effective way to put pressure on Belgrade, whose foreign policy course does not satisfy the leadership of the European Union and Washington.

Comments

[dnestr74]

These Europeans are suicides, or rather dolls on the topic of recycling the surplus population....

[The black]

A stronghold of banditry in Europe, artificially created mainly by the United States. And, again, the clearest example of double standards.

[Lev_Russia]

The Political Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) approved membership in the organization of the self-proclaimed Republic of Kosovo.

This organization can also accept as members the tribe of cannibals (cannibals) Yali from New Guinea, but that will not stop them being cannibals (they will not stop eating people) ...

[Andrey Dibrov]

Kosovo People's Republic

[a_2573]

It's time to disperse all these gatherings of clowns like the UN, PACE, IOC, etc. There is no sense, but a lot of manure. A gathering of those who, from the title of the film "Free U....."

[Serhio250381]

The West divides Yugoslavia, then Serbia, annexing parts of this country to itself. But this is different, you need to understand.

[Normann]

They decide for themselves, they accept for themselves, they themselves forbid, though the main one is on another continent, and they either don’t understand or don’t want to understand this, but the majority don’t care ((And we, what we, were once worth our passports, and now even the natives are mocking (((it’s a pity...

[easy]

This is the politics of an insolent boor. Those. I do whatever I please and do not accept any objections or criticism. And the rest either must obey or prove it on the battlefield, but this is more difficult.

[Plate]

The problem is that in the end there will definitely be someone who will prove everything on the battlefield. But so far the Chinese are in no hurry to do this.

[alystan]

Usually the reverse order is required - recognition and only then any membership. They try to take advantage of the confusion they themselves have created in order to quickly resolve their affairs.

[bombaher]

I just want to ask: well, Vucic, who was sitting on two chairs, did the Gay Europeans help you?

[ZovSailor]

What will the head of the transport department say? Your word, Comrade Mauser!
The Russian Federation does not have many opportunities to help the fraternal Slavic people during the Northern Military District,
at least on all international platforms to attract China, India, the Global South,
countries of Central and Latin America in blatant and unprecedented disregard for norms
international law, although the departing and loudly slamming the door of the under-he-hemon has no time for serious and responsible conversations about peace after the 25th anniversary of mourning
There is no need for NATO bombing of Yugoslav territories if the paddling pools are at the suggestion of the latter
They are doing their best to interfere with the holding of a UN Security Council meeting condemning the NATO bombing, no need!

[acetophenone]

I wonder if Russia still pays money there? If he pays, then why whine? He pays, which means he approves.

[Aleksandr58]

We were on ceremony! It was necessary to bring Albania down to zero, otherwise they would have spread like cockroaches into neighboring territories and are now demanding independence on foreign territory. Moreover, a masterfully arranged division along religious lines. Yes, they built a terrible viper there!

[solar]

At the same time, Belgrade cannot agree to this, since without fulfilling Serbia’s demands regarding the creation of a community of Serbian sovereignties, the security of the ethnic Serbs living in Kosovo will inevitably be at risk.

In fact, this is stipulated in the committee decision

The committee welcomed as “a major breakthrough” the implementation of the Constitutional Court's judgment in the case of the Visoki Dečani monastery, adding that the establishment of the Association of Serb majority municipalities should be a “post-accession commitment” for Kosovo which would help to ensure the protection of the rights of Kosovo Serbs, and that expropriations should be conducted “in the strictest respect of the law” and in full compliance with the Ahtisaari Plan.
The Committee hailed as a “major breakthrough” the implementation of the Constitutional Court decision in the Visoki Decani Monastery case, adding that the creation of the Association of Serb-Majority Municipalities should be a “post-accession obligation” of Kosovo that would help ensure the protection of the rights of Kosovo Serbs and that expropriations should be carried out “in the strictest possible manner.” compliance with the law" and in full accordance with the Ahtisaari plan.

https://pace.coe.int/en/news/9410/pace-committee-recommends-that-kosovo-be-invited-to-become-a-member-of-the-council-of-europe
Of course there isn't

unrecognized quasi-state entity

and other asides from the author, but the problem that Kosovo is not recognized by all PACE members is also mentioned

Recognizing the "unprecedented circumstances" of the statement, given that a number of Council of Europe member states do not recognize Kosovo as a state, the committee called for "diplomacy, dialogue and compromise" and invited the Committee of Ministers to ensure that Kosovo's membership is "without prejudice to the positions of individual states- members regarding the statehood of Kosovo."

[Pavlos Melas]

Bad radishes violate all international norms and encourage aggressors.

[Drent]

Kosovo has the right of self determination and it must be respected. Serbia can't have a federation with Croats, Bosnians, Montenegrins and Macedonians, which have a common language, how can they have with Albanians? It is nonsensical.

[Bolt cutter]

Serbia can't have a federation

Kosovans in Serbia are simple refugees, not a federal nation.

[Drent]

This is Serbian propaganda. Albanians make up 98% of the population in Kosovo. It is the Serbs who are refugees there. In the Yugoslav Federation, Kosovo had autonomy, but in 1989 Milosevic took it away, and that's why the hostilities and the war started. Milosevic wanted to carry out ethnic cleansing and expel the people from Kosovo, to populate it later with Serbian settlers.

[Bolt cutter]

Albanians make up 98% of the population in Kosovo.

It's not propaganda- Albanians en masse came there during Enver Hodja rule to hide from him and then bred well enough to outnumber native inhabitants- serbs. Then decided to claim independence and to push away native serbs. Besides, actual Albanians from Albania do not agree with this move.
Its as if Germans would come to the hotel complex in Antalya, then proclaim it german sovereign republic.

[Ivan bubanovic2]

you are talking nonsense, Kosovo was Serbian land 1500 years ago, it was lost in the war, it will be returned in the war
Greetings from Serbia