Haradinaj: Here's the main blame for dragging the Demarque vote.

Haradinaj: Here's the main blame for dragging the Demarque vote.

Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj has blamed the Democratic League of Kosovo for deliberately dragging the screening process and voting the border demarcation agreement with Montenegro in the Kosovo Assembly. Haradinaj has criticised MPs, and especially the Foreign Affairs Commission, this currently stands in mind the draft law on [...]

Haradinaj has criticised MPs, and especially the Commission for Foreign Affairs, this is currently under consideration by the demarcation bill.

I criticized. And yet today I say, why are you delaying? Put it”, Haradinaj has declared after a meeting he held with Pristina municipality chairman Shpend Ahmeti.

But, on the other hand, Vjosa Osmani, chairman of the parliamentary Foreign Affairs Commission by the Democratic League of Kosovo, told Radio Free Europe that the Government of Kosovo is the one who has blocked the process. According to her, the government has not offered alternatives to how it will get out of this situation.

The problem is that the government itself has no will and no idea, no idea, how to get out of the situation it created violently since the (AAK) was in the opposition”, Osmani said.

It has clarified that the Commission leading it is not blocking the process and that in time it will carry out all obligations for the bill in question.

Osmani said that if the Government had the interest and will for the agreement to be passed to the Assembly, it was possible, even without being sent at all the bill to the commission it heads.

Our “Commission has respected the procedures. It is within legal terms and, above all, I have respected the demand of the majority of deputies on the commission, including those coming from the ruling parties that this issue should eventually be voted on on January 15th. So, we end this matter on January 15th, then it's in the hands of the session -- that's 120 deputies”, Osmani said.

Meanwhile, Foreign Affairs Commission Deputy Chairman Time Kadrijaj from the Alliance's ranks for the Future of Kosovo told Radio Free Europe that the demarcation bill has been re-entered on the commission agenda and is expected to be considered soon. Like the prime minister, Haradinaj and MP Kadrijaj think the commission has stalled its proceedings.

We've had a chance not to drag the case. The mayor could have called the meeting for a principle of review of the bill so he can proceed further and submit to the vote, against or for, and not remain in the hands of the commission. So, the deal could have been processed earlier by the” commission, Kadrijaj said.

The border demarcation agreement with Montenegro is signed by Pristina and Podgorica authorities at the end of August 2015, in Vienna. The same agreement was ratified by Montenegro's Assembly, but not by Kosovo's. 80 MPs are needed for its ratification.

The European Commission has in some cases repeated to the prime minister and the Government of Kosovo that without ratification of the agreement on demarcation with Montenegro, Kosovo cannot benefit from the visa liberalisation process.

But, Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj, continues to believe that the European Union will release on the terms and criteria set for visa liberalisation.

Unlike Prime Minister Haradinaj, Kosovo President Hashim Thaci has called on MPs to ratify demarcation with Montenegro and help the country emerge from isolation caused by leaving Kosovo out of the visa liberalisation process.

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