Orlic: Pristina’s membership application is against CoE principles

NEWS 16.09.202221:45
TANJUG/ VLADIMIR SPORCIC

Serbian Parliament speaker Vladimir Orlic and head of the Council of Europe (CoE) Office in Belgrade Tobias Flessenkemper assessed that Serbia is an active CoE member, which is important in the context of European integration as well as for the Parliament that has a permanent delegation to the CoE Parliamentary Assembly, said the Serbian Parliament Public Relations Department.

Orlic said the rights of Kosovo Serbs are trampled on a daily basis, and stressed that the issue of Kosovo’s membership with the CoE is unacceptable to Serbia and that it is against the rules and values that this organization’s work is based on, said the press release.

Orlic said that official Belgrade, represented by Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, always insists on an approach that implies peace for all and the honoring of solutions agreed upon, while the interim institutions in Pristina ignore the obligations that they have undertaken and make unilateral moves, on a daily basis, which also threaten the Serbs’ physical safety.

“Democracy, the honoring of human rights and the rule of law – these are precisely the examples of what Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija (the official name for what the Serbian authorities consider to be the country’s southern province) are being brutally deprived of on a daily basis,” Orlic said.

Flessenkemper expressed his satisfaction with the successfully implemented changes to the Constitution in the field of the judiciary, emphasizing that the citizens’ clear will was confirmed at the referendum and adding that further work on improving the standards of the judiciary’s independence through new legislation is expected.