Application for Council of Europe membership enters the Council of Ministers agenda on Monday discussed for Kosovo

This becomes known on the agenda of the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers, which is allied in Kosovo.

The meeting will be held Monday, April 24th, meanwhile, on the agenda of the Committee of Ministers is also an application for membership.

The meeting, exactly, the agenda where an application for membership is discussed at 2:30.

Meanwhile, the Telegraph sources also suggest that Kosovo's application for membership in the KiE will be on 24 April in the agenda of the Committee of Ministers.

Otherwise, the first phase for membership of a state in the Council of Europe begins on the Committee of Ministers with the procedure for membership.

Days ago Foreign Affairs and Diaspora Minister Donika Grovalla, in a report to the Commission for Foreign Affairs, has said that votes for membership in the KiE have secured and should not last long for Kosovo's app to be passed by the Committee of Ministers at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

The Council of Europe since May 2022, when we submitted our request, there have been movements regarding our request. It's a legal opinion that was presented in October last year, which has removed the dilemmas about whether to violate the internal rules of the KiE our application. There has been a report that has been requested by the Ministerial Committee, which in Strasbourg is represented by the ambassadors of member states for human rights in Kosovo, which has also been positive for us”, the top diplomat has said.

The foreign affairs minister has stated that there have been various consultations of the Council of Europe presidency with various states, including non-concilative states.

“What has already happened is that no one has a dilemma that we have the votes assured, this has been the main challenge our partners have thought would be the biggest, securing the votes needed to accept our request. Votes have been secured, and I think it shouldn't be long before all procedures have been exhausted to pass our request from the Ministerial Committee to the KiE Parliamentary Assembly”, she said.

For one country's membership in the KiE, there are three phases.

In the first phase, the Committee of Ministers begins the membership procedure. In the second phase, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe sets relevant standards and gives the recommendation for membership. In the third phase, the Committee of Ministers decides after the opinion of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.