Brnabyq: It has withdrawn from the agenda Kosovo's request to become a special guest in the KiE

Kosovo's request has been on the agenda of the Committee meeting, which is being held today in Paris.

Brnabiq, during Serbia's Parliamentary Assembly session, said the head of the Serbian delegation has announced it to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Bilana Pantic.

“Great gratitude for our Spanish friends, great gratitude for our friends from the European People's Party (EPP), who offered us support so that we could get the majority to get this point off the agenda of the Parliamentary Assembly's Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe”, Brnabiq said.

Present-day presence is Besnik Tahiri and Ariana Musliu Shoshi, members of the Kosovo delegation to the Council of Europe. Radio Free Europe is making efforts to contact them for a comment.

Free Europe is also addressed to the Kosovo Ministry of Foreign Affairs on this issue, and is awaiting response.

The Parliamentary Assembly can grant the status of guest of the specific national parliamentary of European countries that are not member states but have applied for membership in the Council of Europe.

Members of the special guest delegation could sit at the Parliamentary Assembly, but they have no right to vote. They have the right to give a speech with permission of the Assembly president.

Kosovo failed to become a member of the Council of Europe at the beginning of 2017, because it conditioned with the Association of Serb majority municipalities in Kosovo.

Last year, Serbia had formed a working group for co-ordinating the activities of state authorities against Kosovo's accession to the Council of Europe.

The Council of Europe is a leading organisation to protect human rights. Evental membership would help Kosovo, among other things, in the area of rule of law, and fighting corruption.