Albania-Montenegro parliamentary commission’s meeting on environmental issues

cooperation and the enhancing of environmental issues’ legislative process.

Albania and Montenegro share a borderline of 210 kilometers, 172 kilometers of land borders and 38 kilometers of water borders which include the Adriatic sea, the Shkodra lake and rivers.

“The environmental issues do not take in consideration or respect borders, therefore it is important that the officials of both countries, including lawmakers, cooperate to exchange experiences and discuss concrete ideas and measures to minimize the dangers of catastrophes, to boost the environmental protection and the bettering of local governance”, said at the meeting the head of OSCE presence in Albania, ambassador Florian Raunig.

Deputy head of OSCE mission in Montenegro, Waldemar Figaj said that “the stimulating results of bilateral cooperation, such as common board patrolling stared in 2008, should extend further to include even environment’s protection, area on which the authorities, civil society, organizations and Aarhus Centers will have their role, by perceiving and treating natural sources of both as a common heritage that must be preserved for the future generations”.

This is the II meeting of the two parliamentary commissions from Albania and Montenegro who gather to discuss matters of common interest. In 2009, OSCE supported a meeting of tow other parliamentary commissions with focus on the European Integration./