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The Kosovo Assembly on Wednesday again failed to proceed to a vote on the controversial border agreement with Montenegro after the government failed to stack up the necessary numbers.

The vote was postponed for "another day", which the presidency of the assembly will set in the days to come.

Kosovo MPs have again postoned a decision on whether or not to ratify a vexed border demarcation agreement with Montenegro, set for Thursday.

The vote failed as a result of the decision of the government to turn the vote into a package, by including two additional documents.

Following a meeting of the Kosovo government on Tuesday in which the cabinet amended the draft law on the border demarcation agreement with Montenegro, Kosovo's Prime Minister, Ramush Haradinaj, said he will request for parliament to vote on the controversial issue on Thursday.

The President of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, on Friday, issued a joint statement with the President of Montenegro, Filip Vujanovic, about the controversial issue of marking the border, saying the two states had agreed to work together on identifying points of dispute.

Montenegrin Prime Minister Dusko Markovic will pay an official visit to Kosovo on Tuesday, despite Kosovo's failure to set a day for its MPs to vote on a long-awaited demarcation agreement between the two countries.

Kosovo's government confirmed that "all topics of mutual interest between two countries will be discussed" during Markovic's visit.

According to the Kosovo president, the Kosovo authorities "assumed certain responsibilities and obligations" and "will fulfill them in accordance with the agreements reached," writes Pristina-based Albanian language outlet Koha.

President Hashim Thaci said that the law that enables the new Hague-based Kosovo Specialist Chambers to operate was unjust but cannot be revoked, despite attempts by MPs from the ruling coalition.

Tanjug carried this report on Thursday, citing the Pristina-based, Albanian language website Gazeta Express.

"The Special Court cannot be abolished and will not be abolished, this is the attitude of the state, not an opinion," Thaci told a press conference on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the unilateral declaration of Kosovo's independence.

The Time Magazine has ranked Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj among the five most wanted "geopolitical fugitives of 2018", Gazeta Express reported.

Days ahead the visit of the Montenegrin Prime Minister Dusko Markovic to Kosovo, it remains unclear if and when Kosovo's parliament will vote to ratify the agreement on border demarcation between the two countries.