The meeting was attended by Biljana Pantic Pilja, Head of the Serbian delegation to PACE, Dunja Simonovic Bratic and Elvira Kovacs.

The topic of the extraordinary meeting held in Paris on 27 March was "Statutory Opinion on the application for membership set out in the letter of 12 May 2022 addressed to the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, in line with Statutory Resolution 51(30)". The Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe gave a positive opinion regarding the request of so-called of Kosovo to become a member of this organization. At the vote, 31 members voted "for", four were against, and one abstained. Two votes against came from members of the Serbian delegation, one vote against each from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro, while Greek member Alexis Tsipras abstained.

Dora Bakoyannis said that the implementation of the Constitutional Court's verdict in the case of the Visoki Decani Monastery is a "great step forward", adding that the establishment of Community of Serb Municipalities should be a "post-accession obligation" for so-called Kosovo, which would help ensure the protection of the rights of Kosovo Serbs, as well as that the issue of expropriation should be carried out "with the strictest respect for the law".

Let us recall, at the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy, held on 5 March 2024, Bakoyannis underlined that there is a certain democratic limit below which no candidate should be admitted to the Council of Europe, and in this particular case the specific requirements are clear - implementation of the decision of the Constitutional Court in the case of the Visoki Decani Monastery, the establishment of Community of Serb Municipalities and the resolution of the issue of land expropriation in municipalities with a majority Serbian population.

The Head of the Serbian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Biljana Pantic Pilja, pointed out that the procedure for joining the Council of Europe is clear - only a country that accepts the principles of the rule of law, whose every citizen enjoys human rights and freedoms, can be admitted to the Council of Europe, and the so-called independent state of Kosovo is not a state, but its status of southern Serbian province is clearly regulated by UN Resolution 1244. Pantic Pilja underlined that the decision to accept so-called Kosovo, which is not a state, under accelerated procedure, to the Council of Europe, violates all the norms of international law and hypocritically avoids the story of a serious violation of human rights and basic freedoms by the Pristina authorities in Kosovo-Metohija. Pantic Pilja underlined that of the three conditions stated by the rapporteur for giving a positive opinion, only one was fulfilled, thus the rapporteur broke their word and showed that they have no integrity. The non-fulfilment of the obligation to establish the Community of Serb Municipalities provided for by the Brussels Agreement and the reference to the Ohrid Agreement, the condition of which is the establishment of the Community of Serb Municipalities and new elections in Kosovo-Metohija, shows the application of double standards because the Pristina authorities did not fulfil their obligations and were rewarded with the liberalization of the visa regime and access to NATO and the Council of Europe. Pantic Pilja congratulated the rapporteur on entering history as someone who violated international law and all the norms and principles on which the Council of Europe is based, because it was shown the hypocrisy that those who violate human rights and freedoms call for them. "Kosovo-Metohija is an integral part of Serbia and always will be, and Serbia will consider its attitude towards membership in the Council of Europe, an organization that most grossly violates international law," said Biljana Pantic Pilja.

MP Dunja Simonovic Bratic reminded the members of the Committee of the three conditions set by Dora Bakoyannis regarding the reception of so-called Kosovo to the Council of Europe, of which only one was respected - the implementation of the decision of the Constitutional Court in the case of the Visoki Decani Monastery, which, according to the rapporteur, "has a symbolic importance for the Orthodox community, religion and culture". Simonovic Bratic agreed that the implementation of the decision of the Constitutional Court is a symbolic decision, bearing in mind that the establishment of the Community of Serb Municipalities is the most important condition awaited since the signing of the Brussels Agreement, and added that the reduction of three conditions to one is a twilight of international law. She expressed deep concern over the possibility that the Pristina authorities, in light of these events, would apply even harsher measures against the Serbs, viewing them as a stimulus for such actions and as a reward. Simonovic Bratic added that, if the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopts the application, the final decision will be made at the Committee of Ministers. She expressed the hope that the members of the Committee of Ministers, if they are reasonable, will not adopt such a decision. Otherwise, Serbia will reconsider further participation in the work of the organization

MP Elvira Kovacs pointed out that rapporteur Dora Bakoyannis had a list of measures that Pristina should take in response to the recommendations from the report of eminent lawyers, which also includes positive steps towards the inclusion of national minorities. Language is often the cornerstone of people's identity and preventing people from learning and using their language can be a violation of their individual rights; at the same time, it can negatively affect communities as a whole. Kovacs added that in addition to the fact that "the Albanian and Serbian languages and their scripts are the official languages of so-called Kosovo and have an equal status in Kosovo institutions" (as stated in the second article of the Law on the Use of Languages), on 14 March 2024, the "Ministry of Infrastructure of Kosovo" began the process of removing the existing monolingual signs in Cyrillic and Latin on the roads in the north of Kosovo and their replacement with new bilingual ones, first in Albanian and then in Serbian in the Latin script. Furthermore, the Decani Monastery is not the only case of abuse of property of a member of a national minority by the Pristina authorities. Since 2022, in the municipalities with a Serbian majority, Leposavic and Zubin Potok, the Pristina authorities have initiated land expropriation cases for 118 plots. International organizations, including the EU, EULEX, OSCE and the USA, have expressed deep concern over these decisions, stressing that the procedure is not in accordance with Pristina's laws and regulations. The basic issue that must be resolved, and which has already been agreed upon in the past, is the formation of the Community of Serb Municipalities. The establishment of the Community of Serb Municipalities is an international obligation and the most concrete way to ensure effective protection of the Serbian community in the northern municipalities. The Community of Serb Municipalities should improve Pristina's relationship with minorities in Kosovo to the European level, solving other problems such as the use of the dinar. Although the draft statute has already been prepared, Pristina has not taken any steps to refer it to the Constitutional Court for consideration. "Dora Bakoyannis said that Kosovo will be monitored in post-monitoring to see if it fulfils its obligations. What is the guarantee that the authorities in Pristina will implement their obligations when it is obvious that they have not been implementing them for 11 years since the Community of Serb Municipalities was agreed upon, with the EU standing behind the Brussels Agreement as a guarantor. Also, how can the Pristina authorities be trusted to implement reforms concerning the rule of law, when Kurti and Osmani said in their public statements that they were returning the property to Decani only because of the membership in the Council of Europe?!" said Kovacs.