Prime minister of Albania Edi Rama, who is paying an official visit to Montenegro, said he felt like home in Podgorica during a meeting with his Montenegrin counterpart Dusko Markovic.
“When I come to Montenegro, I feel like in Albania,” he said after the meeting with Markovic.
Montenegrin PM said that the Albanian community in our country was strongly committed to Montenegro and its interests.
Rama and Markovic agreed to hold a joint session of the Montenegrin and Albanian governments in Shkoder. It is to be scheduled for October.
No news on the border with Kosovo
Since Rama is seen in international circles as a leader of Albanians wherever they live, Montenegrin reporters asked what he thinks about the fact that Kosovo’s parliament has been refusing to ratify the agreement on the border with Montenegro for almost two years.
The document was signed in 2015 in Vienna. However, the opposition in Kosovo does not want to support the vote in parliament because they believe their country will lose about eight thousand hectares of land in that way.
“As a third party who has almost nothing to do with the issue, I can say that I am grateful to the Montenegrin side for its contribution to solving this issue. Hopefully, this will be resolved in an appropriate way,” Rama replied.
Markovic said that it could not and would not disrupt relations between Montenegro and Kosovo.
“It’s about creating the political conditions in Pristina… Montenegro does not require special conditions and we are even willing to give in,” he said.
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As a reminder, the vote on the border with Montenegro is one of the conditions for approving Kosovo’s visa liberalisation with the EU.
As for Montenegro’s membership in NATO, Rama said he was pleased that Montenegro would be the 29th member of the alliance.
Montenegro’s NATO accession protocol is to be signed by US president Donald Trump, after it was previously passed in the US Senate. In addition, the protocol is also to be confirmed in the Spanish upper house and then Montenegrin Parliament is expected to ratify it.
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