The Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) through a press release today said it considers the Committee on Foreign Affairs made a mistake today by submitting the draft-law on border-demarcation with Montenegro to the Assembly, because, it has processed a "ticking time bomb" for the future of Kosovo. “It is up to all of us to reject this version of demarcation and to find a solution through political means. No one should put the citizens at risk, for personal power,” notes the press release.

The Vetëvendosje Movement MP, Donika Kadaj-Bujupi, said on Tuesday that nothing can stop Vetëvendosje to oppose the border-demarcation deal with Montenegro. “We will not stop opposing this harmful agreement, because Kosovo has no land to give away. Arrests and other efforts cannot stop us,” Kadaj-Bujupi said.

Unidentified persons threw stones at the Kosovo government building on Tuesday while the Committee on Foreign Affairs was reviewing the draft-law on the ratification of border-demarcation agreement with Montenegro, Zëri reports.  Several windows were broken while media report that no one was injured from the attack.

Kosovo political leaders from the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), Vetëvendosje, Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), and the Initiative for Kosovo (NISMA) had a closed-door meeting today with ambassadors of the Quint countries. Political parties were represented by Xhavit Haliti (PDK), Isa Mustafa and Arban Abrashi (LDK), Jakup Krasniqi and Fatmir Limaj  (NISMA), Ramush Haradinaj (AAK), Visar Ymeri and Glauk Konjufca (Vetëvendosje) while the Quint countries were represented by ambassadors of US, France, Germany, Great Britain, and Italy.

By Edmond Krasniqi

Kosovo has accumulated plenty of domestic problems since the 1998-1999 independence war, but the US and EU are just making things worse by pressuring its leaders to ratify a border agreement with neighbouring Montenegro. The border delineation was agreed in August 2015 and ratified by Montenegro's parliament four months later.

But Kosovo's opposition has expressed serious doubts over the deal, claiming that over 8,000 hectares of land will be lost.

The ruling coalition between the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) and the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) will try to ratify agreement on border demarcation with Montenegro before the visit of the US Vice President Joe Biden on 17 August, sources told the news website. Meanwhile, the draft law on border demarcation, passed today by the government of Kosovo, is expected to be submitted to the Assembly for final endorsement next week, around the 11^th of August.

Tens of Vetëvendosje Movement activists protested today in front of the Kosovo Assembly building against the ratification of border-demarcation agreement with Montenegro. Vetëvendosje’s deputy leader, Dardan Sejdiu, said that Vetëvendosje is not against demarcation, but against giving Kosovo’s land to Montenegro. Sejdiu informed the protesters that the agreement on demarcation is not on the agenda for today’s session so he announced the end of the protest and invited citizens to be ready for the next rally.

The Kosovo government has finally adopted the draft law on border demarcation with Montenegro, following a debate in the Kosovo Assembly on Wednesday.

For the legislation to come into force, parliament now has ratify the document with a two-thirds majority, however.

The government adopted the legislation amid continued opposition protests against the deal, which they say deprives Kosovo of 8,000 hectares of land.

The Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) through a press release on Thursday noted that the current version of border-demarcation agreement with Montenegro was proven wrong by experts during the demarcation debate held yesterday.

Prime Minister of Kosovo, Isa Mustafa, in his address at the border demarcation debate today, said that it has not been proven until now that Kosovo is giving land to Montenegro through the demarcation agreement. Mustafa said that after the border demarcation agreement was signed a year ago, he made a call to all those who claimed to have land that would be affected in the deal to come forward and present relevant ownership documents.  Mustafa also said that the Ahtisaari status package obliges Kosovo to draw the border along the same lines decided in 1974.