Demarkation in arbitration would take Kosovo at least 3 years

Commission member for the verification of the Riza Smaka demarcation has indicated to Indexline that he hopes this issue will not go to the Arbitrazhi Court because it would take Kosovo precious time.

He believes that after new findings on the border line, Montenegro will express its will to sit down and negotiate the issue.

Let's first hope that after publishing our report that will follow through negotiations with the Montenegrin side with a compromise fart to get into this again. But if Montenegro does not present the will to review the demarcation line then we would be obliged to address the Arbitrazhi Court in which both sides should give the consensus”, he said.

Smaka has shown that in arbitration, issues usually drag on and are not judged soon, taking into account the conflicts presented by Slovenia's problem with Croatia, as well as Croatia with Serbia, which are still unresolved.

The Arbitrazhi decision by at least takes three years to get more and more of course, the same procedures can take over to our courts, as in the Court of Appeals, in which the subjects dragged up to 10 years in endless length, even in cases where it comes to the simplest of subjects, the same procedures go to the Court of Arbitrazhi<1>, Sma said.

He has indicated that initially Kosovo should not be conditioned with resolving demarcation as a condition for visa liberalisation. Bea has artificially imposed this criterion on Kosovo with the support of the local factor for corrupt causes.