Conjufca for membership in KiE: Unfair to establish additional conditions, the latest has been for the monastery

Parliament Speaker Glauk Konjufca has expressed optimism that Kosovo will also pass the second step towards membership in the Council of Europe.

In a statement to the media about holding the speech at the International Forum for Women, Peace and Security, Konjufca said it is unfair to establish additional conditions for membership in the KiE.

According to Konjufca, the latest criterion for membership in the KiE has been the carrying of land to the Decani Monastery.

“Today I am very optimistic that Kosovo will pass this second major step because then it remains the third. As much as you've heard of these as conditions, I don't think they're in Mrs. Bakoyannis' report, I don't think it's fair for Kosovo to experience other additional conditions from what you can read by yourself the report that experts from the Council of Europe have compiled. Those Eminent experts from the KiE itself have been mandated to come to Kosovo and to assess the level of democracy, human rights and rule of law, which are the three most important pillars of KiE”, Konjufca said.

“Pass has made the report the dominant experts have shown the situation that is in Kosovo, while Bakoyannis on their data has built her report, which says Kosovo has only one criterion, and the criterion is the Decani Monastery that we solve as a matter. There are no additional conditions, if other states wanted their governments to set additional conditions, then I think that's unacceptable. It is the deliberate damage of Kosovo and its interest and it is not at all welcome when the KiE itself has welcomed us, when Mrs. Bakoyannis himself comes from a non-recognitionary state, which only says the monastery is a condition and sets the conditions of the other”, he said.