Kosovo Assembly Committee for Foreign Affairs, Diaspora and Strategic Investments is holding a meeting to discuss the Draft-Law for Ratification of the Agreement on State Border between Kosovo and Montenegro.

Head of the Commission for Demarcation, Shpejtim Bulliqi, said their work is based on three researches and that they would have found more mistakes on the report drafted by the previous Demarcation Commission if they had more time.

One of the first issues on the agenda of the new Kosovo Prime Minister, Ramush Haradinaj, was the resolution of the territorial dispute with Montenegro.

After the meeting with the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Ramush Haradinaj, in Tirana, Albania’s Prime Minister, Edi Rama, spoke at the joint press conference about the demarcation of the border between Kosovo and Montenegro.  He said that Kosovo is interested to resolve this problem which has become an obstacle on the road towards the EU. “Haradinaj is requesting some time to divide from the opposition position, and I would not want Mustafa, (LDK leader) to object this agreement which he supported until recently.

Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo, Enver Hoxhaj, told Wiener Zeitung that demarcation of the border with Montenegro is not a transnational matter but an internal political matter of Kosovo. He added that Kosovo has excellent relations with Montenegro.

During the meeting with people of Prizren, candidate of the PDK-AAK-NISMA pre-election coalition, Ramush Haradinaj, spoke about the demarcation of the border with Montenegro.

Representatives of the opposition political parties have threatened that they would use “all means” to prevent ratification of the agreement for the border demarcation with Montenegro. These statements came after the meeting between the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Isa Mustafa with the European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos, who appealed to Kosovo government and political parties to proceed with voting at the Assembly as soon as possible.

Kosovo’s Minister for European Integration, Mimoza Ahmetaj, appealed to Kosovo Assembly MPs to ratify the Agreement with Montenegro on border demarcation as soon as possible, because it is the only remaining criteria for liberalisation of visas for Kosovo people to move freely in Schengen zone.

In an interview for Radio Kosova, Ahmetaj said that the EU High Representative, Frederica Mogherini, said that progress has been reached on fighting organized crime and corruption.