Membership of Kosovo in international organizations

The Council of Europe voted on Monday to send Kosovo's application for membership to the organization's Parliamentary Assembly.

Ahead of today's extraordinary session of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, Hungary opposed the membership of the so-called Kosovo in that organization, Sputnik learns.
Official Budapest does not look favorably on Pristina's initiative for membership in the CE, ever since the initiative was submitted, reports Sputnik.

Kosovo will hold snap elections on October 6th, the president's cabinet announced today after lawmakers voted last week to dissolve parliament following the departure of the prime minister, reported the Bulgarian National Television. 

According to him, the outcome of the vote in the Interpol General Assembly in Dubai on Tuesday also made "both Kosovo and Serbia losers."

Serbia was strongly opposed to Pristina's repreated bid to join this international police organization.

Kosovo has failed for a third time to become a member of Interpol, the international police agency has announced.

Kosovo's application was assessed at Interpol's four-day general assembly in the the United Arab Emirates city of Dubai, together with applications from other states who want to join the 192-member police organization, reports Radio Free Europe. 

 Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister, Enver Hoxhaj, said during Government's meeting on Friday that during this month or January 2018 at latest, Kosovo will submit its application for membership into the Council of Europe, Gazeta Express reported.

The Office of the Prime Minister through a press release on Thursday announced that Kosovo gives up bid for Interpol membership this year, Gazeta Express writes.

Kosovo's bid to join Interpol has caused fears in Serbia that international warrants could be issued for members of its security forces who participated in the 1999 Kosovo war, but watchdog NGOs say that the prosecution of suspected war criminals depends on political will in Serbia itself.

Kosovo has not applied for membership in UNESCO this year, says New Kosovo Alliance leader Behgjet Pacolli.

Pacolli, who is also "one of the richest Albanians in Europe, and in the world," asked Kosovo's outgoing foreign minister, Enver Hoxhaj, "why he was misleading the public" when he said that Pristina had secured the votes needed for membership in UNESCO and Interpol.

The Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced that the World Customs Organization (WCO) has suspended Kosovo until further notice.

In a statement issued on Sunday, and carried by the Serbian government's website, the MFA said that this happened during a session held the previous day "regarding the accession of the so-called 'Kosovo' to this organization."