Kosovo Prime Minister Isa Mustafa told members of the Kosovo Assembly today that circumstances are not right to vote on the border demarcation agreement with Montenegro. “As Prime Minister, I believe that today the circumstances are not right to vote on the demarcation with Montenegro … The government has withdrawn the draft law from the agenda. We will try to reach a joint position on the law. We believe it is not appropriate to discuss this draft law at this point and we don’t want to make concessions about the draft law.

Slavko Simic, head of the Serbian List parliamentary group, told the news agency that Serbian List MPs will not attend today’s session of the Kosovo Assembly that is expected to vote on the border demarcation agreement with Montenegro. “We have decided not to attend the session because of the recent security situation and also because of the ongoing protest,” Simic said. The news agency notes that without the votes of the Serbian List, the border agreement cannot be ratified.

Vetevendosje’s organizational secretary, Dardan Molliqaj, said today he was confident that the border demarcation agreement with Montenegro will not be ratified by the Kosovo Assembly. “Peaceful protests will convince many members of parliament not to vote in favor of the demarcation. The protest will escalate only if there is provocation by the police,” Molliqaj said.

Vetevendosje leader, Visar Ymeri, told a press conference in Pristina today that the Vetevendosje activists, who were arrested by police today over their alleged participation in a bomb attack on the Kosovo Assembly on August 4, are innocent and that the weapons seized during the raids today have nothing to do with the bomb attack. Telegrafi quotes Ymeri as saying, “the Kosovo Police is continuing to frame cases against Vetevendosje activists with the same methods previously used by the Serbian State Security Service”.

Most media report that Kosovo Assembly President, Kadri Veseli, hosted today a meeting with ambassadors of the Quint countries and discussed the recent political developments in Kosovo. Veseli thanked the ambassadors for the continuous support that their countries are giving to the people and institutions of the Republic of Kosovo. “During the meeting with the Quint ambassadors, I reiterated our institutional commitment to Euro-Atlantic integrations.

Pristina-based news website Lajmi reports that six activists of the Vetevendosje Movement, have been arrested today over recent violent acts, such as the throwing bombs at the Kosovo Assembly and the Radio Television of Kosovo. Vetevendosje spokesman Frasher Krasniqi is also believed to be among those arrested. According to the news website, relatives of Vetevendosje leader Visar Ymeri are also among those arrested. They were reportedly found with arms and ammunition.

Kosovo Assembly MP from the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK,) Lahi Brahimaj, said that the 1 September Assembly session on the Agreement for the borderline between Kosovo and Montenegro, will be postponed for another date because the coalition government does not have sufficient number of votes.  He said that many MPs from the coalition government have already announced that they would not vote the current version of demarcation.

The League of Kosovo Historians, the branch in Deçan, has again called on members of the Kosovo Assembly not to vote in favor of the border demarcation agreement with Montenegro. They called on MPs to rise above their political interests, to listen to the call of the people and not ratify an agreement that is detrimental to the people of Kosovo.

Veton Surroi considers that renegotiation of the agreement for the demarcation of the border between Kosovo and Montenegro is an interest of Kosovo, because, according to him, this would create an internal consensus. He also considers that it is an interest of Kosovo and Montenegro for the demarcation to happen based on the consent of both parties. Currently this is not possible being that one of the parties is not unanimous, he writes.

Ilir Deda, an independent member of the Kosovo Assembly, told Klan Kosova today that he will not vote in favor of the demarcation agreement with Montenegro when the Kosovo Assembly will meet on September 1. The TV station recalls that in an earlier statement, Deda said that the European Union was not right to condition visa liberalisation for the people of Kosovo with the ratification of the border agreement.