Change agency, Parliamentary Assembly to Discuss Kosovo's Membership in KiE on 16 April

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has changed the official agenda for the spring session.

In the new agenda, the discussion on Kosovo's membership in the Council of Europe, which was meant to take place on April 18th, will take place two days at a time, therefore, on April 16th, the Express newspaper reports.

For this change, Serbia's permanent representative to the Council of Europe, Susan Grubjesic commented with propaganda tones for Euronews Serbia. She said the change took place because, according to her, “there are fears there won't be enough deputies in the hall on April 18th because they are already leaving Strasbourg”.

Kosovo took a step towards membership in the KiE on 27 March. Despite the vote against Serbia and two other countries, the KiE Committee for Policy and Democracy approved the Kosovo rapporteur's report, Dora Bakojannis, who recommended that the country has met the conditions for becoming fully member of the Council of Europe.

The Serbian representative says it will be easily feasible” for this report to be approved in the Assembly as well.