Djukanovic raises the alarm: Balkans Hazard Return to War

Former Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic today delivered a lecture at the Faculty of Political Sciences at Sarajevo University on the “regional relations and geopolitical challenges in the Western Balkans”. He gave a powerful warning: without clear European perspective, the region is in danger of slipping back into conflict and destructive nationalism. “Europe today does not have [...]
Europe today no longer has the will or strategic courage to complete the continent's union. Meanwhile, Balkan states have lost vision, drowned in their inability and forgotten reforms,” said Djukanovic.
He added that dangerous past ideology is flourishing in this vacuum and that stability is not eternal, while the Balkans have remained “held hostage in repeating” history, broadcast Periscope.
Djukanovic warned that nationalism is coming back, and that Montenegro is facing “brutal attacks of the Serbian world project”, a modern form of “Great Serbia ideology”, which, according to him, saves neither Bosnia and Herzegovina nor Croatia.
Montenegro's state and national identity are questioned as in the past. This is an attempt to include him in a Serbian world that is dangerous and destabilizing for the entire region,”, he said.
He said the Serbian Orthodox Church (KOS) has become a powerful instrument of Belgrade's nationalist policy and Russian influence agent in the region.
In 2020, the KOS assumed the role former Yugoslavia's military or secret services was used for power change in Montenegro. This is an offensive that doesn't stop. ”
Djukanovic recalled Montenegro's coup attempt in 2016, which he said was organised by Russian secret services with the help of elements in Belgrade to undermine Montenegro's NATO membership.
The “wanted then, but Russian and Serbian offensive intensified in 2020. We have a dangerous project of geopolitical proportions. If time is not reacted, the consequences can be serious. ”
He stressed that the Western Balkans are at a historic crossroads, and that war is not impossible unless stability is maintained.
We've tried the war and ended it tragicly. Who plays with the idea of revising the Dayton Accords must know: this is a fire game”, Djukanovic warned. /Vijesti












