Serbian media question recognition of Kosovo by Guinea-Bissau

But today, Belgrade's online newspaper “vjetnje novosti”, in a writing of its own is trying to refute Kosovo Foreign Minister Behgjet Pacolli over this note and its confirmation of Kosovo citizenship, Coha.net broadcasts.

This document, according to this portal, sent by the Guinea Foreign Affairs Ministry Bisau, has no signature of the minister and, according to him, should be asked if he is valid.

Always according to “ovost”, this country's minister is not competent to make decisions of this nature, while the announcement is made in Portuguese that is not common. Nota, says the Serbian portal, which has arrived in Pristina, dates 24 January, while this country's Prime Minister Umaro Sisoko Embalo (has stayed in Belgrade during November) in an attempt to end the political crisis has resigned a week before that.

Since the party, under the president's decree, has been appointed new Prime Minister Augusto Arthur da Silva, whose first task is to organise new parliamentary elections, the newest decision on recognising Kosovo, judges the portal, has been made in the political vacuum, and thus comes into question its legitimacy, Time.net conveys.

Gunija Bisau is in the registry of countries that have known Kosovo since 2011. Embalo in Belgrade has denied that the recognition really happened, saying he has not seen any documents testifying to him and, according to “ovost”, he added that his country supports Serbia's territorial integrity and sovereignty.

Several days after that statement, information has come from Bisoa that the 2011 decision to recognise Kosovo has been withdrawn, and Pristina has been announced. The cited Serbian media expects this country's final position on Kosovo's status to be clarified after the elections and formation of the new government.