Failure to join the KiE, Sarrazin: We can do your job, the Decani Monastery decision is late.

Martens said Germany imposed additional “constitutional conditions” after Kosovo had fulfilled them, referring to the international demand for sending the draft European Constitutional Court to the Association of Serb-run municipalities.

Sarrazin said Germany has done a lot of work, but can't do Kosovo's diplomatic work as well.

You cannot trust Germany alone to do your diplomatic work. It should also be by Kosovo itself to convince other partners and not to put us into convincing them. This is”, the German diplomat said, even responding to criticism that Kosovars “have lost confidence”.

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Sarrazzin said the moment must be seized. He said the Kosovo Government's decision to implement the Constitutional Court's decision requiring the transfer of 24 hectares of land to the Decani Monastery “came late”.

Everything changes in the world. And if you lost your moment, then don't complain later that things changed. Decani is late. It's too late. I'm sure this is not the official position of the German government that if this was done half a year ago, you would be at the Council of Europe today. It came too late”, Germany's envoy said.

Sarrazin said Germany has not left Kosovo in the process, as Martens said.

For Germany, he said the Council of Europe would be linked to Association, but that “for other partners this was different”.

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He said in advance that the forwarding of Kosovo's application for KiE membership at the “Parliamentary Assembly took place only because of Germany”, while citing lobbies and other commitments.

I don't think that's the result that should make us happy. We want Kosovo to be in the Council of Europe... We want this to happen. But for us it was clear that a failed vote on this ministerial representative committee, we must certainly avoid”, Sarrazin said.