3 minutes agoVuciq calls the next “” Kosovo's announcement of draft status status for association
Periskopi(2 years ago)
(2 years ago)Serbia's president, Aleksandar Vuciq, called “fraud and unserritic efforts by Kosovo” the announcement that it aims to draft a draft state for establishing an Association of Serb majority municipalities in the country. Kosovo Foreign Affairs and Diaspore Minister Donika Grovalla said Thursday morning that she sent him a letter [...]
Kosovo Foreign Affairs and Diaspolia Minister Donika Grovalla said on Thursday morning that she has sent a letter to the Council of Europe to announce that Kosovo will prepare the draft draft state for association, then hand it over to the Constitutional Court, and that she expects it to accept Kosovo as the newest member this week.
Vuciq said at the Western Balkan and EU leaders' summit, which is being held in Kotor, that Kosovo cannot make such a draft status without the reconciliation of the neighbouring state.
“Who are you to hand over this text [draft-state]? The Brussels agreement is quite clear, that it must be done with the reconciliation of Serbia, or if we agree, as we have been agreed in contextually, conceptually and in principle that it should be an EU text delivered by”, Vuciq said, Serbia's Radio Television (RTS).
The chief of the Office for Kosovo in the Serbian Government, Petar Petkov, said that “is taking place a major attempt at fraud” and that the letter was sent at the last minute, prior to the meeting of the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers this week.
The “is a pure fraud, through which Kurti wants to avoid his obligation from dialogue”, Petkovic said.
Kosovo and Serbia have reached two agreements for Association twice in dialogue between themselves under EU mediation, in 2013 and 2015.
But, the Constitutional Court said in 2015 that the agreement on the principles for establishing association was not in full harmony with the highest judicial act of the state. Harmony, according to the Constitution, can be done through illegal acts.
The Kosovo government has repeatedly voiced itself against a single-ethnic association.
Petkovic said the final statute of Association “is made and approved” in the high-level dialogue in Brussels, so that it is not the “Pristina unilateral action”.
Gervala's announcement of Kosovo's pledge to draft and submit a statute for Association to Constitution comes after several countries, such as Germany and France, have asked Kosovo to make Actual steps towards establishing association, to convince skeptical governments to vote in favour of membership in the Council of Europe.
Kosovo government, originally, has it Reject This condition.
The KiE Parliamentary Assembly has voted for Kosovo's admission on 16 April, and the final decision has been passed to the Committee of Ministers, which meets on 16 May and 17 May.
But, Gerald Knaus, from the European Initiative for Stability, says he does not expect Kosovo to be on the agenda of the Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers on May 17th, where it could be voted for its admission to this organisation.
