Kurt for Lajcak's draft: Let's get her to Venice, I'll take mine to Constitutional.

Prime Minister Albin Kurti has returned to talk about Association. The failure of the proposed international draft state for this community of municipalities at the Constitutional Court last month is keeping the country out of the Council of Europe.

Kurti refused the conditions imposed, although he hoped a “r of guarantee” that association would be established after membership, and then a recent effort with another letter sent to Strasbourg that a new draft state would be sent to the tribunal by the end of the month would cause Kosovo to enter the KiE.

The failure was not averted and the case was left outside the agenda of the Committee of Ministers meeting.

He said he is willing to write a draft state for Association, if he wants to agree on principles and not be outside the agreement package with Serbia.

Kurti said the internationals have offered “a way out” that says “is the most logical and rational”.

“In the situation where they insist on Lajcak's draft and other emissaries for Association, send him to an international instance. It may be the European Council's dominant lawyers, it may be the Venice Commission, but not at the Constitutional Court of Kosovo”, Kurti said in an interview for A2 on Wednesday. CNN.

The bill-stater he was told to send to Constitution, Kurti reiterated that “is a paper paper, is a processing document” that said “has no logo, no stamp, no signature”.

“We can't get a papernon what embassies in the past have given us on various issues, send it to Constitutional Court”, Kurti said.

It's an international draft, it's not a local. At the Constitutional Court, we send documents that are local. An international document let it go to test in an international instance. So I'm saying, the draft of Lajcak and other emissaries of October 21st, freely take him to the dominant lawyers at the Council of Europe and Venice Commission”, the prime minister reiterated.

“The document is theirs, not mine”, Kurti stressed, while added that my “document I take to the Constitutional Court, but my document”.

Although he refused to submit the international proposed draft Association draft to Constitution, thus refusing the condition for Kosovo's membership in the CoE in May, Kurti hoped for the best “on May 17th”.

The government took a letter to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on the eve of meeting the Committee of Ministers, in a last-ditch effort to convince the ministers of the member states of this organisation to put Kosovo on the agenda of their meeting, promising to prepare a draft Association of Serb majority municipalities that said it would submit to the Constitutional Court for Review by the end of May.

So the executive hoped that, after these “concrete and tangible steps”, the Committee of Ministers would eventually decide on Kosovo's membership in the Council of Europe, which did not happen.

The president did not support this letter bearing the signing of Foreign Affairs Minister Donika Grovalla, who is currently running Guxo, the party whose chairman was Vjosa Osmani until April 2021. The presidency said she had not consulted him.

That letter, according to Osmani, has changed the entire “ ” position held by Kosovo to that day on the issue of association.

It is said that such fundamental information for a capital process that has changed overall the attitude that we've kept until that day, that can't be taken out of such fundamental information of the overall agreement, that there can't be unilateral implementation of the agreement only from Kosovo, but it has to have parallel implementation, that it can't link the process of dialogue with the membership process of the Council of Europe... all of them have fallen into water with the offer that has been made that day, because that offer has not been for the contents of either the principle of the pledge signed by the three-to-five-five-one leaders, recalling that the constitutional framework of our government has always been in line with our constitution, and that the constitution has always remained.

Kurti says that until the last decision-making instance in the KiE membership process, association “has never been a condition” and that “ai has been presented as coming after membership, not before membership”.

But we saw that some member states changed attitude, we didn't change. This tells of the Council of Europe, not for us”, Kurti said, adding that this was the first “the Council of Ministers delays the decision on Parliamentary Assembly”.

“They may delay us, but they can't stop us from this” membership, Kurti said.

Now, when it is confirmed that an important movement towards establishment of association is inevitable for membership in the KiE, the Government is willing to write a draft status in the hope that by the end of the year it will be admitted to the oldest international political organisation in Europe.

Days ago, the head of the Vetevendosje Movement parliamentary group, Mioza Kusari Lila, said that Kosovo is interested in finding a solution to the issue of association, which “does not pose risks”, while added that it is “convinced that Kosovo will be a member of KiE very early, perhaps even before this year's end”.

May, last month, was a lost opportunity. In the first week of that month, ambassadors of state of the QUINT and chief of the European Union office in Kosovo were in Government to ask the prime minister to move towards establishing association before the Committee of Ministers met.

They, Albin Kurti, were told that “Kosovo has fulfilled all criteria for membership”, mentioned the “s of the guarantee” for establishing the Association of Serb majority municipalities after membership, and was told that “Kosovo is the most democratic country in the Western Balkans”.

As the Prime Minister's Office announced, Kurti had told international guests that “the abnormalisation of relations between Kosovo and Serbia takes place in Brussels, rather than in Strasbourg” and that “these two processes should not be mixed up”.

“Prime Minister stressed that Article 7 of the Bazic Agreement cannot be drawn from the package of the Brussels and Anex agreement in Ohrid and should not be placed as a priority and centred. He recalled that on 26 October, bids to sign the agreement in packages that would pave the way for full implementation of the Agreement, including Article 7 related to Article 10. In this direction, the prime minister reaffirmed that the document offered as a draft statute by Lajcak for implementation of Article 7 related to that 10, was rejected last October 26th in Brussels”, said in the ZKM communiqué.

On April 16th, 80% of MPs in the Parliamentary Assembly voted to further advance Kosovo on the road to membership in the Council of Europe. But Kurt was immediately warned that “is now hard work”. Before the impasse on the Committee of Ministers, he said “I make steps that endanger Kosovo, sovereignty, territorial integrity, constitutionality and its legality”.

Kosovo took the first important step towards membership in the Council of Europe on March 27th, when, despite its vote against Serbia and two other countries, the KE Committee for Policy and Democracy approved the rapporteur's report on Kosovo, Dora Bakoyannis, who recommends that the country has met the conditions for fully joining the Council of Europe.