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BiH gov't adopts border agreement with Montenegro

Xinhua, October 6, 2015 Adjust font size:

The Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) on Tuesday adopted a border agreement with its neighbor Montenegro.

This step will finalize the procedure of defining a state border between the two countries, said the Council of Ministers in a statement, describing the agreement as "an important positive step in the region."

The two Balkan countries signed the agreement on Aug. 26 in Vienna.

The previous treaty, agreed in May 2014, had to be renewed after BiH's Social Democratic Party (SDP) questioned Montenegrin sovereignty of Sutorina coastal territory, which had belonged to BiH prior to 1947, as it had not been ratified in their parliament.

Ties between the two former Yugoslav states were stained for a while. After some harsh debate within BiH and political exchanges between the two countries, the BiH parliament in May this year rejected the supposed claim to the territory, paving the way for a border agreement. Endit