Kosovo’s PM orders beginning of demarcation with Serbia

NEWS 22.08.201822:10
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The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Ramush Haradinaj, said on Wednesday that he told the Commission for Border Monitoring to start marking the frontier between Serbia and Kosovo, the KosSev website reported.

Haradinaj told a news conference that he had demanded the state body to start defining and marking the border with Serbia immediately after Kosovo and Montenegro ratified the agreement on their borderline.

He said that “there isn’t any controversy on the Kosovo-Serbia border, because it exists.”

Earlier in the week, Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic commented on reports about the border issue, saying “what boundary, you know that there is an official line controlled by (NATO force in Kosovo) KFOR.

Haradinaj ordered the demarcation on the same day when a 1,000 people protested in Pristina, demanding his and the state prosecutor's resignations, and the European Union's Office in Kosovo warned the politicians to keep hand off the judiciary.

Also on Wednesday, Haradinaj said that President Hashim Thaci was authorised only to “bring Kosovo independence” in the dialogue with Belgrade, but not to talk about border correction.

He added Thaci has his confidence regarding the dialogue, but not concerning the border issue.

Thaci has said several times that the Belgrade – Pristina dialogue should also deal with the correction of borders and that his solution is the secession of Serbia's southern region of Presevo Valley, mostly populated by the ethnic Albanians and its coupling with Kosovo.