The government of Kosovo is expected to resubmit the border demarcation agreement to the Assembly this week, reports the news website quoting sources from the government. This will pave way for the presidency of the Assembly to include the border demarcation agreement on the agenda for one of the upcoming sessions in March. The voting is expected to take place days after the EU High Representative for Security and Foreign Policy, Federica Mogherini, visits Kosovo.

Head of the PDK parliamentary group, Zenun Pajaziti, expressed conviction that his political party would win in the next parliamentary elections, no matter when they would be held. He also considers that PDK will lead Kosovo after elections.

A group of experts said today that the border demarcation agreement increases the territory of Montenegro by over 70 square kilometres to the detriment of Kosovo. “From 1945 to 2015, Montenegro has reported a territorial surface of 13,812km2 but following the signing of the agreement with Kosovo, this figure has increased to 13,882.44km2,” said Shpejtim Bulliqi, MP from the ruling Democratic League of Kosovo and staunch opponent of the border demarcation agreement.

Tomorr Qela, representative of the government of Kosovo during the measuring of the territory of Kosovo, invited all those who have opposed the demarcation process, to go to the government hall where the material is exposed and then reach a conclusion. He added that the Commission has been absolutely transparent and monitored by the representatives of the U.S. Embassy, EU and KFOR. The Commission re-confirmed that the territory of Kosovo measures 10 thousand and 905.25 square kilometers.

Based on reliable sources, Lajmi.net reports that the Assembly session for ratification of the Agreement for border demarcation with Montenegro, will be held on 9 March.  “The European Union and the United States of America are requesting urgent ratification of the demarcation, because Kosovo has stagnated on the Euro-integration processes, concretely on visa liberalization,” the source said.

President of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, said told German papers, Frankfurter Rundschau and Badische Zeitung, said that the decision on visa liberalisation is in the hands of Kosovo Assembly MPs and that to achieve this, they need to ratify the border demarcation agreement with Montenegro. “This is the only condition that has not yet been met,” Thaci said.

President of the Kosovo Assembly, Kadri Veseli, told reporters that the border demarcation agreement with Montenegro needs to be passed as soon as possible. “The moment the government resubmits agreement for ratification of demarcation, we will immediately forward it to the Assembly,” Veseli said after the meeting of the Assembly presidency. Veseli announced that the next sessions of the Assembly have been scheduled for Monday and Thursday.

 In her second day of the visit to Pristina, European Parliament’s Rapporteur on visa liberalisation for Kosovo, Tanja Fajon, continued with her meetings with the Parliament of Kosovo.

Fajon met with the Commission for European Integration, to speak about visa liberalization, while the main subject of the discussions was voting of the demarcation of the border with Montenegro.

Head of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) parliamentary group, Pal Lekaj, dismissed the findings of the commission for measuring the territory of Kosovo saying it produced "a filthy result.” Lekaj said the commission was Prime Minister Isa Mustafa’s “pawn” and was set up to “legitimize plans for crippling territory of Kosovo.”

The Commission for measuring the territory of Kosovo has concluded that the agreement on border demarcation with Montenegro is not damaging to Kosovo and that the area of Cakorr belongs to Montenegro not Kosovo as claimed by the opposition. Spokesperson for the commission set up by the Government of Kosovo, Tomor Cela, said that experts looked into various documents and concluded that the Kosovo border remains unchanged since 1973.