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Kosovo: Border experts approve deal with Montenegro

A PANEL of international experts has approved an agreement demarcating the border between Kosovo and Montenegro, outgoing Kosovan President Atifete Jahjaga said yesterday.

Three experts from the US, Britain and Germany considered the process of establishing the border, but said the process needed to be “more transparent.”

Hard-line Kosovan opposition parties slammed the decision, claiming that the barely recognised, eight-year-old state was surrendering thousands of acres of land to its neighbour.

Those parties have disrupted parliament with teargas grenades in a bid to stop legislation settling the border dispute.

They also object to laws granting rights to Kosovo’s Serbian population.

Nato powers led by the US and Britain launched a bombing campaign against Serbia and Montenegro in 1999 in support of the Kosovo Liberation Army’s separatist insurgency.

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