Pantic Pilja on the debate in the PACE: Bakoyannis won't give a positive opinion on Kosovo unless three conditions are met

The Head of the permanent delegation of the Serbian Parliament to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Biljana Pantic Pilja, says for Kosovo Online that today's meeting of the Political Committee featured an Information Note from rapporteur Dora Bakoyannis regarding the Statutory Opinion on Kosovo's membership application to the CoE and that Bakoyannis reiterated demands concerning three key points: rulings of the Constitutional Court in the case of the Visoki Decani Monastery, the establishment of the Community of Serb-majority Municipalities, and land expropriation in municipalities with a Serb-majority population.

"She also brought a 'reminder about the Visoki Decani Monastery' prepared by the European Stability Initiative (ESI), which includes an interview with Father Sava Janjic, and shared it with the members of the Political Committee. In a heated debate that lasted for over an hour, representatives of recognizing states of the so-called Kosovo state expressed great dissatisfaction with her firm stance that until the aforementioned three demands are met, she will not provide a positive opinion in the report, which is the basis for Kosovo's admission to the Council of Europe," Pantic Pilja says.

The Head of the Serbian delegation to PACE adds that both she and Dunja Simonovic Bratic, a member of the Political Committee from Serbia, reiterated their opposition to the admission of the "so-called Kosovo state" to the Council of Europe.

"We also pointed out that it is illusory to expect the Pristina authorities to do anything related to improving the status of the Serbian community in Kosovo and Metohija, given the upcoming elections in Kosovo and Metohija and the destructive policy of Albin Kurti, which is based on ethnic cleansing of the Serbs," Pantic Pilja says.