The Kosovo Parliament has not ratified the board demarcation agreement with Montenegro, signed by the two countries in August 2015. Kosovo analyst and former senior official of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Azem Vlasi told CdM that Kosovo was “buying trouble” with this behaviour.
“Visa liberalisation depends on this issue, but also many other things,” Vlasi told CdM.
The EU has repeated several times that the Kosovo Parliament had to ratify the Protocol on Demarcation with Montenegro if it wanted visa liberalisation for the citizens of Kosovo.
Vlasi says that the demarcation issue is treated in Pristina as an internal issue, as a disagreement between individual political blocs which lasts for two years now.
Prime minister Ramush Haradinaj formed a demarcation commission, which announced today its findings according to which the 2015 agreement is unacceptable because it defines the border where it should not be and that Kosovo loses part of its territory by that agreement.
Vlasi says the thing is being complicated.
“The Kosovo government decided to send the old agreement to Parliament for voting, as well as the new commission’s findings that were announced today. Everything is further complicated and I do not see the solution is near. This remains an open question. On several occasions, Montenegrin officials declared that this was a closed case for Montenegro, whereas it remains open for Kosovo. No one knows until when,” Vlasi is clear.
