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METERMontenegro and Serbia have declared that the ambassador of the other country is an undesirable person. Diplomats have to leave their respective countries of deployment, as the foreign ministries in Podgorica and Belgrade announced on Saturday.
Montenegro started: the small Balkan country expelled Serbian ambassador Vladimir Bozovic. The diplomat interfered in the internal affairs of the host country and thus violated international law, the Montenegrin Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. More recently, in public statements, Bozovic described Montenegro’s legally questionable union with Serbia in 1918 as “liberation” and “act of free will.”
Change of government is expected in Montenegro
Serbia responded a few hours later. In the course of reciprocity, Belgrade declared Montenegrin Ambassador Tarzan Milosevic undesirable and expelled him from the country.
The government move in Podgorica was carried out four days before his replacement. Next Wednesday, parliament must vote on a new government backed by a broad opposition alliance. In Montenegro, President Milo Djukanovic has ruled in various capacities for almost 30 years. He led the small Balkan country to independence from Serbia in 2006 and to NATO in 2017.
The dominant force in the new government coalition is the pro-Serbian and pro-Russian Democratic Front (DF). The smaller allies are pro-Western, but like the DF, they want to break Djukanovic’s supposed omnipotence. In the coalition negotiations it was agreed that NATO membership and the EU accession process should not be questioned.
