Djukanovic: From Belgrade neither big Serbia nor Albania big, but great tragedy

Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic said Serbia was “working too hard at the expense of it” and added that Montenegro's hate spirit and everything Montenegrin has now been released, which is why relations between the two countries are at the lowest possible level today.

Serbia is working extremely hard at its expense. There is no need to prove that, I have been an actor in political life for 30 years, I have followed 1990s, the Z-4 plan offered for Croatia, plans offered for Bosnia, the one for Kosovo. All this was arrogantly rejected, rudely and hastily, and all ended in serious loss for Serbia and for those who were the creators of such a policy in Serbia”, Djukanovic said.

According to him, what was done by official Belgrade in the 1990s in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo is happening today to Montenegro.

That's what I told my colleagues in Belgrade about the Law on Religion. I told them I remember the 1990s, that there were some people, I think, with a political book more serious than today. They then released that hateful spirit and could no longer control it. Today the same mistake is repeated, hatred is sown against Montenegro and all that is Montenegrin. This would irreparably exacerbate relations between our two countries”, Djukanovic argued.

He added that this could now be seen “through the violent campaign under way by Serbia for local elections in the second largest city in Montenegro, Niksic”.

We did not have a large Serbia, neither a large Albania, nor a large Croatia, but we had a great tragedy, with more than 130,000 victims. That policy was defeated but not buried and now it is trying to revive,” said Djukanovic.

He claimed that this nationalist, chauvinist spirit lives in the belief that they lost in the 1990s because international circumstances were not favourable for them, so today they are trying to do what they failed to do then.

After the Montenegrin president, due to various crises that have occurred in the world, the international community has left the Western Balkans as an unfinished ʹbusiness”.

It has left dysfunctional Bosnia paralyzed Macedonia (North), the unresolved issue of Serbia and Kosovo. The chauvinists' idea now is for Montenegro to leave NATO, compromise and return to Serbia's lap,” Djukanovic said.