Finally Set Week for Demarketing

The ruling coalition is making efforts to secure votes for ratification of the new demarcation agreement between Kosovo and Montenegro. The Kosovo government today approved the amendment and fulfillment of the Bill for ratification of the agreement between Kosovo and Montenegro.

This came after new developments and the agreement reached between Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and Montenegro's Filip Vujanovic, which enables corrections if mistakes are found in the preliminary agreement.

In this regard, Indexline has contacted deputies of the ruling coalition. MPs from the ranks of the Democratic Party of Kosovo, Blerta Deliu, have declared that to vote the demarcation requires exactly 80 votes and that coalition partners are committed to secure the necessary number of votes.

According to her approval of the demarcation in the Assembly opens Kosovo's European perspective, especially in visa liberalisation.

The coalition “Partners are engaged to secure the necessary number of votes. As chairman of the Commission for Integration, being aware of the importance of ratifying this agreement, I think the session should be held when sufficient votes” are secured, Deliu said.

According to her, this week will determine a lot.

“Demarketing the border with Montenegro is among the key criteria of free movement, so as such its adoption in the Assembly, opens Kosovo's European perspective, especially in visa liberalisation”, Deliu has concluded.

While Kosovo's Parliament deputy from the Social Democrat Initiative, Haxhi Shala, has stressed that the procedures have already started by the Kosovo Government and that it remains from the Parliament's Headship to decide concerning holding the session.

“I believe that with this annex-agreement or with this signed statement the coalition will have enough votes to pass the demarcation, but each MP remains to decide for himself”, Shala has said of Indexline.

According to him on the basis of all meetings and negotiations that they have had inside and outside the country with internationals, the transition of demarcation will accelerate or enable the visa liberalisation issue within a year.