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(5 years ago)Montenegro's president praised in New York that there are more and more problems in the Western Balkans, so, as he said, the issue of the pace of EU enlargement should not be highlighted primarily, but the issue of the stability endangered in the Balkans. This leads to what we have repeated [...]
This leads to what we have repeated in all previous years, especially Podgorica, and this is that a sign of equality should be drawn between Balkan stability and integration”, Djukanovic told reporters at the end of his visit to New York, where he participated in the UN General Assembly.
According to him, the EU is the locomotive of the European continent and the Western Balkans is part of the European continent, so it cannot get away from those problems and tackle them as Balkan problems, RRTCG reports.
“The EU should see the problems and warnings of the Balkans coming from different addresses each year, including our Montenegrin address. I am not satisfied with the intensity of the attention given to those warnings in the past years, so today we have an even more serious problem”, Djukanovic said.
Clearly, he said, there are not enough reliable self-reforming mechanisms in the Balkans “that will strengthen our stability without which there is no prosperity”.
So we must strengthen our stability just through integration. There is no way to say that we should shift our problems to the EU, no, I am convinced that we should become a member when we meet the conditions, but we must first strengthen stability, protect the Western Balkans from insight and geopolitical interests that oppose European interests. Europe must accept this as its responsibility”, Djukanovic added.
Asked whether the Western Balkans region has been set aside to deal with challenges on its own, Montenegro's president replied “that it is very correct to say we have lost the best time for European integration”.
Asked if messages were taken for destabilisation of the Balkans, Montenegro's president replied that today “we can certainly be sure that our problems are not secret”.
“Hopefully now, on the eve of next summit The Western EU-Balkans in Ljubljana on 6 October, we have called attention to the problems that are getting out of control, problems that are becoming more complex and threatening not only for Balkan stability but also for European”, Djukanovic said.
On Wednesday, Montenegrin President Mila Djukanovic indirectly hit Serbia's president, Aleksandar Vuciq, saying that strong reflections of the global politicaltrasms” are felt in the region and that these concerns have led to the re-awakening, as he said, of some backward political ideas.
Early this week, as from New York, Croatia's president, Zoran Milanovic, struck Serbia's leader. He stressed that for Serbia, the biggest obstacle on the road to membership is President Aleksandar Vuciq, of whom he said “is one of the most prominent war promoters in the years {90”, the Express broadcast.
Serbia's EU accession negotiations began in 2014, while so far it has opened 18 chapters and provisionally closed two. Milanovic expressed his conviction that Serbia “has no strong purpose” to join the EU, while Northern Macedonia and Albania said that “are working hard and fighting”.
