Plenkov: Croatia to back Kosovo in all international organisations

He has said Croatia will continue to support Kosovo in all international organisations.

“I welcome today's decision by the Parliamentary Assembly Commission of the Council of Europe to recommend Kosovo's membership in the KiE. Croatia will continue to support Kosovo in all international organisations”, it has written on the X platform.

The Council of Europe's Committee for Policy and Democracy has approved the rapporteur's report for Kosovo, Dora Bakoyannis, where it is recommended that the state has met the conditions for becoming a full member of the Council of Europe.

The next step, according to this committee, will be on April 18th, when this report will be put to the polls before the Parliamentary Assembly in its complete composition.

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Diaspora Kreshnik Ahmeti said the opinion of rapporteur Bakoyannis recommends Kosovo's membership in the Council of Europe “without any additional precondition”.

None of the pledges Kosovo should take over are required to be realised before membership. At point 11 it is even clear that commitment should be addressed after membership”, he wrote on Facebook.

According to him, all proposals to establish new preconditions “have been rejected by most members of the Committee, which shows that Kosovo must become a member in May of this year and the new preconditions would be unfair”.