The BiH parliament rejected a resolution on Wednesday that would have reopened the dispute with Montenegro over the states’ shared border near the village of Sutorina. With the matter closed, BiH and Montenegro pledged to resume normal diplomatic relations.
Foreign ministries of both countries told Balkan Insight that their ambassadors will soon assume their posts. For the past few months, while the two countries were locked into this border dispute, Vujanovic blocked confirmation of the new Montenegrin ambassador to Sarajevo, Milan Lakic, while Bosnia’s Foreign Ministry pulled their ambassador, Djordje Latinovic, out of Podgorica.
The dispute erupted in November 2014 when Denis Becirovic, an MP from Bosnia’s opposition Social Democratic Party, SDP, proposed a resolution calling for Bosnia’s parliament to reject the prepared draft border agreement with Montenegro and establish a commission that would consult with local and international experts on the Sutorina area.
