Belgrade “harron” Kosovo eyes Montenegro

Serbian media, declared even liberal, are writing about the situation in Montenegro this time. They have put Kosovo aside a little bit, unawares of the Old Serbia, to pay attention to Coastary Serbia as they probably imagine Montenegro is. The law on religious freedom, recently adopted, has set in motion official Belgrade, which sees in the rights of the Serbian Orthodox Church the possibility of exercising its own interests.

The situation in the Balkans is turbulent - Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic was quoted. According to her, President Alexander Vuciq has invited Montenegrin and Republika Srpska Serbs to Belgrade to consider the possibility of their assistance.

Any destabilisation in the region could challenge our rapid development. Serbia plays the stability and balance card, not because we have a big heart, but because it is in the interest of our citizens

She added.

The B92 agency also cites a Croatian theologian who has conducted a lecture in Ljubljana titled: Relations between the state and churches/religious communities in the Western Balkans.

According to this theologian, Montenegrin authorities' actions violate human rights, the European Convention and the Montenegrin Constitution.

I believe this is a precedent, if applied in other countries, threatens to turn into a permanent source of tension and conflict threatening the Serbian Orthodox Church in Kosovo.

He's got a statement on Pearl.

According to him, obtaining Church property is being done by Milo Djukanovic, who is seeking to avoid his imprisonment, but without clarifying how these two things relate to each other. Djukanovic himself has commented that the law on religious freedom establishes the right to existence for the Montenegrin Orthodox Church, which is not yet recognised by other churches. According to him, a separate state has an autocephare church, and this is being observed in northern Macedonia or Ukraine.

These movements in themselves represent the latest act of breaching the balance imposed after the LIB, and especially after Josip Broz Tito's death, when Serbia learned absolute dominance in the space it considers its own. Montenegro is a NATO member state and has earlier states of statehood than Serbia, but above all in the 21st century freedom to live without the consensus of Serbia is something self-understanding and quite natural.