Land borders enter Croatia and Montenegro

The land borders between Croatia and Montenegro is a long Frontière international continuous of only 25 Kilomètre S separating the Montenegro and the Croatia in the Balkans.

Layout

The border begins in north by a Tripoint which it forms with the borders that maintains Montenegro with the Bosnia-Herzégovine and Croatia with this state. Then it joined in the South the Bouches of Kotor culminating with 1089 meters and crossing to the passage the valley of the Sutorina.

Passages

The main roads making it possible to pass from one country to the other borrow the valley of Sutorina connecting the two tourist cities of Cavtat in Croatia and of Herceg Novi in Montenegro, it is an axis of stategic communication for the tourist development of the two countries on which are located Dubrovnik on the one hand and Kotor of the other. Only the other point of passage is a coastal road being at the end of the mouths of Kotor

Frontier conflict

The frontier territory located in the Péninsule of Prevlaka controlling the access of the Bouches of Kotor was occupied by the Yugoslavia at the beginning of the conflict having opposed it to lately independent Croatia in 1991. The presidents Croatian and Yugoslav, Franjo Tudjman and Dobrica Ćosić are reflected agreement on September 30th, 1992 by a joint statement with Geneva to demilitarize the zone. Consequently of what the Safety advice of the United Nations emitted resolution 779 trustful this mission with a force of the FORPRONU which then the Mission of observation of the United Nations succeeded Prevlaka (MONUP). In 2002 an final agreement was found and the presence of UNO ended on December 15th of this same year, since then the peninsula returned in the Croatian bosom.

See too

List of the international land borders by length

References

Embassy of Croatia in France.

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