The Prime Minister of the country, Albin Kurti, accompanied by the First Deputy Prime Minister, Besnik Bislimi and the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Kreshnik Ahmeti, met today the ambassadors and diplomatic representatives of the QUINT countries and the Head of the European Union Office in Kosovo. The meeting discussed current developments and the process of membership in the Council of Europe. The Prime Minister emphasized that until now three important instances of the Council of Europe (Eminent Jurists, Rapporteur Dora Bakoyannis and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe) have confirmed that the Republic of Kosovo meets the standards and criteria to be a full member of this organization. The conditions and prerequisites for membership were set in the report of the reporter Dora Bakoyannis, which the Republic of Kosovo fulfills, including the decision that has been pending for years for the Monastery of Deçan. Moreover, as a sign of readiness and a step forward, the three heads of state sent a letter of guarantee to the rapporteur Dora Bakoyannis for addressing the post-accession issues identified by the Council of Europe. Kurti emphasized that Kosovo is the most democratic country in the Western Balkans, with an advanced constitution that offers guaranteed and expanded rights for the non-majority community, and exceeds international standards, as evaluated by the Eminent Jurists of the Council of Europe. With the letter of guarantee, Kosovo has met all the criteria for membership, therefore any other request is inconsistent with the vote of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on April 16, supported by 82% (131 against 29). Kurti recalled that the normalization of relations between Kosovo and Serbia takes place in Brussels and not in Strasbourg; that the process of membership in the Council of Europe is a matter of respect for human rights, democracy and the rule of law, values ​​that the Republic of Kosovo embraces. These two processes should not be mixed as they do not help each other. If these are mixed, it would cause irreparable damage to the dialogue in Brussels on the one hand and to the Council of Europe on the other hand as an institution for the preservation and promotion of democracy and human rights. Kurti emphasized that Article 7 of the Basic Agreement cannot be extracted from the package of the Brussels Agreement and the Annex in Ohrid and should not be placed as a priority and at the center. He recalled that on October 26, the offer to sign the Package Agreement that would pave the way for the full implementation of the Agreement, including its Article 7 in conjunction with Article 10, was rejected. In this regard, the Prime Minister reiterated that the document offered as a draft statute by Lajçak for the implementation of Article 7 related to Article 10, was not accepted on October 26 last year in Brussels. He called on the allied states of Kosovo, the QUINT states to support Kosovo's membership on May 17 in accordance with the assessments by the institutions of the Council of Europe themselves, and on the basis of meritorious achievements in the development of democracy, human rights , the rule of law and its alignment with Western values ​​and attitudes.