The Kosovo Ministry of Justice has sued Montenegro, the Municipality of Budva, and the company Sunraf beach properties d.o.o., demanding that 4.5 thousand square meters of coastal land be returned to Kosovo.
The land is located in the town of Rafailovic, near Budva, on the promenade along the beach of Becic.
The General Attorney of the State of Kosovo, Sami Istrefi, told Radio Free Europe that Kosovo wishes to reclaim the property it purchased six decades ago.
The Secretary of the Secretariat for Property Protection in the Municipality of Budva, Nikola Plamenac, explained that a lawsuit is required to determine if Kosovo is indeed the owner of the property.
“[Kosovo] has proposed as evidence, a sales and purchase agreement signed in the 1960s in Kotor, through which [the property] was purchased by the Council for Social, Political and Municipal Affairs of the former Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija,” Plamenac said.
According to the Basic Court of Kotor, the Republic of Kosovo filed its lawsuit in early November 2020, while the parties had their first meeting with a mediator in late April 2021.
Exit News requested details about the lawsuit from the Ministry of Justice of Kosovo, but had not received an answer at the time of publishing.
