The municipalities of Zeta and Tuzi have until the end of this month to discuss the distribution of property in internal, separate negotiations with the Capital, after which they will be obliged to inform the Demarcation Committee, chaired by the State Secretary at the Ministry of Public Administration, of any achievements. Naim Đokaj.
Đokaj told "Vijesti" yesterday that according to the 2021 decision on the temporary organization of the municipalities of Tuzi and Podgorica, which passed the Government and local parliaments, the municipalities are obliged to form a commission and propose the distribution of property to the Organizing Committee.
"They are currently in that process. We will not have any activities until the end of February - beginning of March, when we will contact them and see how far the negotiations have come," said Đokaj.
There is no decision on the temporary organization of municipalities between the Municipality of Zeta and the Capital City, and representatives of the Municipality of Zeta appealed for this decision to be adopted as soon as possible in order to temporarily resolve the issue of demarcation and enable the efficient functioning of the municipality.
Yesterday, neither the representatives of the committees from the two municipalities nor from the Capital City responded to questions about whether there have been internal meetings and any progress so far.
At the meeting of the Minister of Public Administration Maraš Dukaj with the mayor of the capital Saša Mujović, President of the Municipality of Tuzi Lindon Đeljaj and the President of the Municipality of Zeta Mihailo Asanović, which was held about twenty days ago, the dynamics of the work were agreed upon and it was agreed that undisputed issues would be processed immediately.
It was agreed, as announced at the time by the Ministry of Public Administration, that all measures and actions would be taken to resolve the disputed points in the demarcation and division of property, so that only what was necessary would be entrusted to arbitration.
At that time, it was assessed that the previous demarcation process was ineffective, so all participants in the meeting expressed their willingness to complete these processes as soon as possible.
In March last year, the government came out with the position that the demarcation between Tuzi and Podgorica should first be completed, and then between Zeta and Podgorica.
Tuzi became an independent municipality in 2018. At the session held on September 27 of that year, in accordance with the amendments to the Law on Territorial Organization, the Assembly of the capital made a decision on the formation of the Organizational Committee to create the conditions for the start of the work of the newly established municipality of Tuzi. The committee's task was to, in accordance with the law, propose a way of regulating relations, territorial demarcation and division of property, as well as other activities necessary to create conditions for the start of the work of the newly founded municipality. Since then, no agreement has been reached regarding territorial demarcation and property division.
The disputed border lines between Podgorica and Tuza are in Kuči, Ćemovsko polje, Kuća Rakić...
In the demarcation process, the plaintiffs are asking for the entire property owned by Podgorica to be divided, and they believe that, in proportion to the territory and the number of inhabitants, about 15 percent of the entire joint property belongs to them.
Member of the Board and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Djelosaj, told "Vijesti" last year that appraisers would determine what the 15 percent amount in money was, and confirmed that, if something could not be divided, Tuzi would seek monetary compensation.
Zeta, a former municipality within the Capital City, received municipal status in August 2022, when the Parliament adopted amendments to the Law on Territorial Organization and the Capital City, a few months before the local elections. At the end of 2023, a committee dealing with demarcation and division of property began to work.
The municipality of Zeta demanded that the existing Law on Territorial Organization be respected and that the settlements that belong to Zeta according to that regulation be transferred to that municipality, and that those that belong to Podgorica remain in the capital, and that the disputed part - the cadastral municipality of Dajbabe - be submitted to arbitration.
Knežević said that DNP would not vote for the budget due to delimitation, then denied it
Although he once announced that he and his party's MPs would not vote for the 2025 budget proposal if the demarcation of Zeta and Podgorica in the undisputed part was not completed by then, the leader of the Democratic People's Party (DNP) Milan Knežević and the party's MPs voted for the state budget proposal on Friday evening.
46 government deputies voted for the budget, including DNP deputies Knežević, Dragan Bojović, Vladislav Bojović and Jelena Kljajević, while only NSD deputy Bojana Pićan abstained. Knežević's party did not answer the question of "Vijesti" why they changed their position on the issue. Knežević said in the show "Slobodna zona" on TV Prva at the end of November last year that what indisputably belongs to Zeta, in territorial and administrative terms, are - the Airport, part of Plantaže, the Morača riverbed, water sources, city-construction land.
"Not even Podgorica disputes this, that it should be transferred to Zeta so that Zeta could function as a normal local self-government, like all local self-governments in Montenegro."
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