Bosnia and Herzegovina has enough problems and it does not need to create new ones by opening the issue of the border with Montenegro, Slovenian politician and former MEP Jelko Kacin said in an interview published by the Sarajevo-based daily “Dnevni Avaz” on Monday.
At this moment, Montenegro is definitely the leader of European integration processes in the region and Bosnia needs to have friendly relations and not enter conflicts with it, Kacin said commenting on attempts by some politicians and NGOs in Bosnia to raise the issue of the status of the Sutorina region which spreads between Herceg Novi and Prevlaka.
The issue of the status of the Sutorina region in Montenegro has lead to the cooling of relations between Sarajevo and Podgorica.
The debate about it was launched by an informal group comprised of the present and retired Sarajevo university professors who started a public campaign aimed at preventing the ratification of the already defined border agreement with Montenegro in the Bosnian State Parliament.
Montenegro has postponed the sending of a new ambassador to Bosnia over the debate on Sutorina and Podgorica has warned that as far as the Montenegrin government is concerned, the debate on the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina has ended.
(Source: dalje.com)
