Montenegro will initiate all available mechanisms at the international level to protect Cijevna River, as Albania didn’t respond to Montenegro’s concerns about the potential impact of mini-hydropower plants on the Cijevna. The Montenegrin Ministry of Agriculture told Pobjeda daily Albania did not comply with the obligations arising from the Water Convention that the two countries signed last year in Skadar.
President of the Interstate Commission of Montenegro and Albania for Cooperation in Water Management and Managing Director of Water Management Directorate, Mr Momčilo Blagojević, said Montenegro would initiate all available mechanisms defined in international conventions.
“Montenegro will initiate all available mechanisms to solve this issue by informing all the responsible secretariats in the Helsinki Committee, as well as the European Commission about planned activities on the Cijevna River that might have serious impact on Montenegro,” Mr Blagojević explained.
He recalled that Montenegro first reacted last year after environmental activists warned that work had begun on the Cijevna riverbed in Albania, and provided footage of pipes placed in the river.
