
During the first day of the annual meeting of the representatives of the defense and security commissions of the parliaments of Southeast Europe, in Sarajevo, the Serbian delegation and the vice-chairman of the Defense and Security Commission of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Radovan Kova?evi?, interrupted the speeches of representatives of Kosovo and left the conference.
This was announced by the member of the Kosovo delegation, Arbër Rexhaj, through his Facebook account, on June 12. Rexhaj wrote that the Kosovo delegation faced inappropriate behavior from the Serbian delegation. According to him, he tried to close the microphones of the speakers from Kosovo, but "didn't succeed".
He thanked the deputies of Albania and Croatia, who, as he said, clearly lined up on the side of Kosovo.
"I told them bluntly that Kosovo is an internationally recognized state, certified by the International Court of Justice. Also, the attack in Banjska in Kosovo proves that Serbia has not changed, it is the same as Milosevic's," said Rexhaj, noting that he participated there together with the other deputy of the Assembly of Kosovo, Erxhan Galushi.
The news agency of the Republika Srpska entity, SRNA, reported that the Serbian delegation with Kovacevic - a member of Milorad Dodi's Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) - left the conference because "a member of the Croatian delegation, Zdravka Bushic, said that Kosovo will be admitted to the Council of Europe".
Kosovo has passed two of the three stages necessary for admission to the Council of Europe, the leading organization in the field of human rights. In the third step - the approval of membership in the Committee of Ministers - Kosovo was not included in the agenda, as it did not take sufficient steps towards the formation of the Association of municipalities with a Serbian majority.
Serbia and the leaders of the Republika Srpska entity do not recognize Kosovo's independence. The meeting is a two-day regular annual meeting of representatives of the defense and security committees of the parliaments of South-East Europe, organized by the Defense and Security Committee of the BiH Parliamentary Assembly, the Regional Center for Security Cooperation and the OSCE Mission to BiH , with the support of the Geneva Center for the Control of the Armed Forces./REL