British and German MPs also supported the removal of Kosovo’s request from the CoE agenda

Among the members of the Political Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) who voted today to remove Kosovo’s request for special guest status from the agenda, ten MPs from countries that recognize Kosovo also supported the decision, as Kosovo Online has learned. This included two MPs from the United Kingdom, Richard Baker and Don Touhig, as well as one from Germany, Andrej Hunko.

Among the 21 MPs who voted to remove the request, there were also representatives from Kosovo-recognizing countries, including Zsolt Nemeth (Hungary), Martin Graf (Austria), Boriana Aberg (Sweden), Ricardo Carvalho (Portugal), Deborah Bergamini and Elisabetta Gardini (Italy), and Birute Vesaite (Lithuania).

MPs from non-recognizing countries who supported the removal included Pablo Hispan, Gutierrez Limones, Gonzalo Robles, and Gutierrez Prieto from Spain; Sorin-Titus Muncaciu and Titus Corlatean from Romania; Nicos Tornaritis and Giorgos Loucaides from Cyprus; Miroslav Vujicic from Bosnia and Herzegovina; and members of the Serbian delegation, Biljana Pantic Pilja and Dunja Simonovic Bratic.

Other Serbian delegation members, Aleksandar Mirkovic and Elvira Kovac, also contributed to the outcome, though they did not have voting rights.

On the other side, among the ten committee members who voted to keep Kosovo’s request on the agenda, there were MPs from non-recognizing countries, including Iulian Bulai from Romania and Yelyzaveta Yasko from Ukraine.