“Marty’s report test for CoE”

Council of Europe (CoE) Rapporteur Dick Marty’s report is a test for the CoE, Austrian MEP in the Parliamentary Assembly of the CoE (PACE) Martin Graf said. “The report cannot be ignored and action has to be taken,” he told Tanjug, adding that he was a member of the CE committee that decided to put the report up for vote in PACE, which will happen January 25. “Marty’s report test for CoE” “The vote will be a test for the CE, which is going to prove whether the organization is willing to follow its own principles,” he noted. “If you allow crime outside your door and do not investigate, then why have the CE in the first place,” Graf argued. “There have been attempts to delay the presentation of the report, which was completed much earlier, but it was not published because of the elections in Kosovo,” the Austrian official revealed. “The committee vote was very close, since a two-thirds majority was needed for the adoption, but PACE will only require a simple majority,” said Graf. “The international community and the EU have been leading a one-sided policy in the Balkans,” he remarked. “It was a pro-Kosovo, pro-Albanian, pro-Croatian and pro-Slovenian policy, meaning that it was pointed against Serbia,” he added. “That is obvious now, and the report is a mirror for those who ran that biased policy, so they are uncomfortable with facing it,” Graf stressed.

“Marty’s report test for CoE”

“The vote will be a test for the CE, which is going to prove whether the organization is willing to follow its own principles,” he noted.

“If you allow crime outside your door and do not investigate, then why have the CE in the first place,” Graf argued.

“There have been attempts to delay the presentation of the report, which was completed much earlier, but it was not published because of the elections in Kosovo,” the Austrian official revealed.

“The committee vote was very close, since a two-thirds majority was needed for the adoption, but PACE will only require a simple majority,” said Graf.

“The international community and the EU have been leading a one-sided policy in the Balkans,” he remarked.

“It was a pro-Kosovo, pro-Albanian, pro-Croatian and pro-Slovenian policy, meaning that it was pointed against Serbia,” he added. “That is obvious now, and the report is a mirror for those who ran that biased policy, so they are uncomfortable with facing it,” Graf stressed.