Maliqi warns Haradinaj: It will be easy with Montenegro

Kosovo's new Prime Minister, Ramush Haradinaj, will not find it easy to resolve the problem of demarcation of the country's border with Montenegro. So predicts political connoisseur Shkelzen Maliqi.

He has said he does not share Haradinaj's optimism that a new demarcation agreement could easily be reached with Montenegro.

Maliqi has estimated that Montenegro, which has already ratified the agreement, will not turn it back, not risking the politicisation of the issue, as in Kosovo.

He has shown how, according to him, the issue of demarcation on the part of Haradinaj Government could be tried.

Maliqi has said that in the most optimistic case an agreement between the Kosovo government and the Montenegrin government could be reached for possible corrections of the agreement.

Maliqi's complete comment, without interference:

Prime Minister Haradinaj is extremely optimistic, believing that the new agreement with Montenegro can easily be reached. The principle under which the 2015 agreement has been made, the completion of the border between Montenegro and Kosovo (at that time the province of dual federal status and part of Serbia) was made on the basis of cadastral maps, and even international commissions have confirmed it as a regular process. Montenegro has ratified the agreement, and does not turn it back for another reason that it would politicise the matter as it has been politicised in Kosovo. The opposition in Montenegro, which is more unique and more dangerous than ours, can win this extra popular platform... What can be done relatively quickly is action on two tracks, 1. Dialogue with Podgorica on finding a compromise solution that respects the 2015 deal, but follows by 2. Allowed access to the border line by the good will of two sovereign states, facilitated by any international authoritarian institutions. This seems possible and feasible because even from border municipalities in Montenegro, there is a demand for deviance of the border line.

A preliminary agreement by the two governments would relax the ratification vote in the Kosovo Assembly, without explaining its outcome. In a more optimistic case, a possible correction agreement could be reached...