Kostunica to address Council of Europe PA on Kosovo
Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica is addressing the Council of Europe (CoE) Parliamentary Assembly on Tuesday in a new round of efforts to get the support of the international community for Serbia’s Kosovo status proposal.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Tuesday, October 02, 2007
The fall sessions of the CoE Parliamentary Assembly began yesterday in Strasbourg.
Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic will also speak at the assembly on October 4 about the results of the work of the CoE Ministers Committee. Serbia is presiding over the CoE from May to November.
The report on the future status of Kosovo, which is being prepared by Lord Russell Johnston for the Political Affairs Committee, will not be presented at the meeting nor will the report be compiled by the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights.
The report on legal aspects and the human rights situation in Kosovo will be presented to the Parliamentary Assembly in January and will be accompanied by Lord Johnston's report.
The report on Serbia's commitments towards the CoE will also be completed in January and will be presented three months later, during which time Serbia has the right to respond to any of the findings.
Some of the main topics of the autumn sessions, which will run from October 1-5, will be the issue of the missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, the status of Kosovo, the concept of preventive war and its consequences on the international community, the danger of teaching the theory of creationism in European schools, and regulating the flow of illegal immigrants.
