Petkovic: There is no legal basis for Kurti to dismiss the Management Team for drafting the CSM Statute

The Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Petar Petkovic, announced that the mandate of the Management Team for the drafting of the CSM Statute lasts until the end of the Community formation process and that there is no legal basis for Albin Kurti to unilaterally and arbitrarily dismiss this body.

 "The fact that he doesn't like the draft of the CSM Statute is his personal problem, because the mandate of the existing Management Team is active and valid, confirmed on several occasions by the representatives of the European Union, as well as the High Representative of the EU for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell," Petkovic pointed out. 

Petkovic told Kurti to, before challenging the functioning of the Management Team, "renew the material and re-read the statement of EU spokesperson Peter Stan that the Management Team cannot be replaced unilaterally, because they are part of the dialogue process and that for them the composition of that team is still valid".

Petkovic adds that EU High Representative Josep Borrell emphasized in his address after the last round of the dialogue on May 2 that the EU would continue to invite the Management Team to meetings in Brussels if necessary.

"Kurti's attempt to challenge the composition and mandate of the Management Team is nothing more than a futile time-buying, in order to avoid the obligation to form the CSM, but he will not succeed. The only thing Kurti does is to think of mischief all day long to collapse the dialogue, because he does not want to form the CSM. But as determined as he is in his intention, Belgrade and Aleksandar Vucic are even more determined that the Community be formed," Petkovic concluded.