9 minutes agoMontenegro has problems even with Serbia over border issue
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)Marking Montenegro's border line with Croatia and Kosovo cannot be obstacles on the road to the European Union because there is enough time for border issues to be resolved, former Montenegrin diplomacy chief Branko Lukovac has praised. The EU Enlargement Strategy for the Western Balkans specifically states that in the EU [...]
The EU's enlargement strategy for the Western Balkans says that states that have unresolved border issues cannot enter the EU, and the same has been said by the president of the European Commission, Jean Calude Juncker and Commissioner for Enlargement and Economic Policy Johannes Hahn during the presentation of the EU Strategy, writes the Montenegrin daily “Viestisti<1>, Connett.
Montenegro still has an unresolved issue of the border with Croatia, in Prevollaca, as well as the border with Kosovo, while even with Serbia it has not signed an agreement to sign the border line.
Lukovac, speaking of the Prevllaka dispute, as Koha.net broadcasts, has commemorated that in December 2002, a temporary solution has been reached, as he says, for more than 15 years does not bring any problems.
In addition, Lukovac recalls, between the governments of Montenegro and Croatia, agreed in 2008 that if between the two competent bodies of the two countries failed to reach an agreement on the final solution, Montenegro and Croatia would leave this ruling to the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
Montenegro, from neighbouring states, has to resolve the border issue only with Albania and Montenegro. The border with Montenegro was resolved with the Florence protocol on 26 July 1926 when the border was defined, while in 2009 a Border Point Renewment Agreement has been signed between the two countries and this border has been fully defined, writes the Montenegrin daily “Vijest”.
The agreement with Bosnia and Herzegovina was signed in 2015, and part of the political forces there have demanded that Sutorina meet Bosnia, however, did not have the necessary majority.
Montenegro cannot suffer consequences if EU warns Kosovo
When talking about the border with Kosovo, Parliament in Pristina has been delaying ratification of border demarcation with Montenegro for a long time, Koha.net broadcasts.
Lukovac says that according to many estimates, ratification is delayed due to the political forces' big contradictions and disagreements in Kosovo.
Kosovo's “state bodies on this subject have sometimes been sent warning from the EU side, and thus, Montenegro can in no way suffer the consequences on its path to EU membership due to the delay of ratification of the Agreement as a consequence of internal processes in Kosovo”, says Lukovac, and adds that it expects the current blockade to be overcome in the coming months so that the border agreement can be ratified by the Kosovo Parliament.
