PODGORICA, Nov 14 (Hina) - The chief of Montenegro's expert team in charge of the Prevlaka issue said on Wednesday that many contentious issues had already been harmonised with Croatia and that negotiations on the border peninsula
were entering the final stage.
PODGORICA, Nov 14 (Hina) - The chief of Montenegro's expert team in
charge of the Prevlaka issue said on Wednesday that many
contentious issues had already been harmonised with Croatia and
that negotiations on the border peninsula were entering the final
stage. #L#
Speaking about the most contentious issue, jurisdiction at sea,
Nebojsa Vucinic told independent radio Antena M Montenegro's
position was to retain the jurisdiction at sea it had at the time of
the break-up of the former Yugoslav federation.
Vucinic said he did not refer to a final border demarcation, but a
transitional solution which should replace the UN Mission of
Observers deployed on Prevlaka and see Croatia and Montenegro
assume responsibility for the status of both land and sea areas in
the so-called blue zone.
Vucinic hoped the two countries' experts in charge of the issue
would draw up one version of a transitional agreement early next
month, and that politicians would then have their say.
The Montenegrin expert said the agreement would formally be signed
between Yugoslavia and Croatia but that essentially, it was a
Montenegro-Croatia deal.
Also yesterday, Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic's advisor on
foreign affairs, Milan Rocen, refuted media allegations that
Djukanovic, in a statement to Croatian weekly "Globus", had
eliminated Belgrade from negotiations on Prevlaka. "It was taken
out of context," Rocen said.
He added three teams of experts were working on a solution for the
peninsula in southernmost Croatia, and that the solution would be
agreed on by Belgrade, Podgorica, and Zagreb.
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