Kosovo cannot send demarcation to international arbitration

Politologist Ramush Tahiri says there are two reasons Kosovo cannot take such a step.

“International arbitration cannot go, because once Kosovo cannot raise issues in arbitration, because it lacks international subjectivity, the second has no conflicts. This will be an internal issue of Kosovo, but it is actually being shown an incompatibleness towards the international community and leads to Montenegro”, Tahiri told Radio Kosovo.

Among Prime Minister Haradinaj's first works was the appointment of the new commission for demarcation with Montenegro.

Haradinaj has said he is expecting the results of this commission to move on. In any case, politicologist Tahiri finds the possibility of renegotiating the agreement difficult.

The “other than international agreement with Montenegro may be rejected by the government, but the past government has approved it. But I don't see any reason now that the new agreement can be overcome by”, Tahiri said.

The signatories of the current agreement, former Foreign Minister Hashim Thaci, now the president of the country, has called days ago not to waste time with the issue.

If we want visa liberalisation, demarcation, in line with the agreement reached in August 2015, must be passed to the Kosovo Assembly. So now it's our responsibility to do two-thirds in the Assembly, and this process goes through”, Thaci said.

But, precisely, the failure of two-thirds of the vote in the Assembly has put the visa liberalisation process for Kosovo citizens on hold for more than two years now.

Government head Ramush Haradinaj said on Thursday he is aware of the president's position, but stressed there is no chance that two-thirds of the votes for the current version of demarcation will be secured in the Kosovo Assembly, allowing the issue to resolve international arbitration.