EU call: Kosovo urgently establishes association long ago under obligation

“is urgently needed to fulfil this task”, EU Free Europe spokesman Peter Stano tells Radio.

But the government is refusing to send the EU draft for Association to Constitution, asking the EU to send that draft to the Venice Commission.

On the other hand, according to Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani, association diminishes the rights of Serbian citizens in Kosovo, and by no means the opposite.

“In fact, the most advanced minority rights system exists now in Kosovo, with the current Constitution, with the laws of the Ahtisari package and other laws that we have adopted as a result of dialogue agreements”, the president told the Voice of America on July 10th.

“With Association, I assure you one thing, it only reduces citizens' rights, and it empowers a kind of power over them, so the leaders of the Association who Vucic at the moment intended to control and somehow make Kosovo non-functional”, she praised.

Last year, the EU introduced a draft state for Association to the parties, which was accepted in principle but later named by Prime Minister Kurti as “non-paper” this draft status.

Kosovo failed to enter the agenda of the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers meeting, held in mid-May in Strasbourg, after the state was set to move forward with the establishment of the Serb Major Community Association.

A day before the meeting in Strasbourg, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Diaspore Donika Grovalla, through a letter, announced to the Council of Europe that Kosovo aims to draft a draft status draft and submit it to the Constitution by the end of May in exchange for state accession to this human rights organisation.

But Gervala's letter said the draft status would be inspired by a draft presented long ago by German organisation Friedri ch-Ebert-Stiftung, not the draft status that was presented to Kosovo and Serbia by the EU, October 2023.

However, Kosovo has so far not taken steps towards establishing it.