Kosovo to become full member of the Council of Europe

Former Deputy Speaker of the Parliament, Saranda Bogujevci, said that Kosovo's membership in the Council of Europe is an unstoppable and irreversible process.

"It is regrettable that a country presents the achievement of an issue that is not related to them at all, for their internal political battles, as Serbia has done today," Bogujevci wrote on Facebook, CE Report quotes Kosova Press.

She provided a clarification about what happened in Paris where the Kosovo delegation was at the meeting of the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy of the Council of Europe. One of the items on the agenda was the handling of the request of the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo for status advancement.

"This point is a procedural part of a state applying for membership. The Committee deals with the application on the proposal of the Bureau and gives its opinion to the Bureau, which makes the decision. At the request of MP Pablo Hispan, leader of the EPP group, this item on the agenda was postponed. Kosovo has achieved extraordinary success when, with over 80% of the votes, it passed the report to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe for membership. The most important process is membership; the change of status is procedural and determined by the rules of the Assembly," she wrote on Facebook.

Kosovo's request to be a special guest at the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe was removed from the agenda, Kosovo's delegation to the Council of Europe confirmed earlier.

Ariana Musliu Shoshi, part of the Kosovo delegation, wrote earlier on Wednesday that at the request of the chairman of the European People's Party Group, Pablo Hispan, a vote was taken to postpone this item from the agenda.