The head of the Serbian delegation in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Aleksandra Djurovic, claims that Pristina can’t become CoE member since it requires a two-third majority of the member states.
She said that it would be a ‘huge bite’ for Pristina to receive a support of the two-third out of 47 CoE member states, considering that 13 of them didn’t recognize unilaterally declared independence of Kosovo.
“When we transfer that to parliamentarian level, than we see that it is about a huge bite for Pristina to receive the two-third majority in the PACE,” said Djurovic to TV B92.
The issue of the CoE membership is not only a matter of the status but of a range of other issues, such as rule of law, democracy, human and minority rights, and those are areas where Pristina has nothing to praise itself with, said Djurovic and added that yesterday’s meeting between the Kosovo Foreign Minister, Hashim Thaçi, and CoE Secretary General, Thorbjorn Jagland, is more of a courtesy nature, considering Thaçi’s new post.
