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Montenegro’s Foreign Minister Djordje Radulovic said the new Montenegrin government could do nothing to “forgive” Serbian Ambassador Vladimir Bozovic.
Source: Tanjug
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Radulović, who spent the last 10 years in the service of the Montenegrin MVP, told Dan of Podgorica yesterday that the previous government’s decision to expel Božović was hasty.
This was strongly condemned by the current Montenegrin opposition, led by the DPS, who told him that he was “unworthy of the position” of the head of Montenegrin diplomacy, with accusations that he was defending the interests of another state.
Two parliamentary parties, members of the DF and the “Serbian House”, demanded that the new government revoke the decision to expel Bozovic as soon as possible, which was previously requested from the Podgorica official by European Commissioner Oliver Varheji.
He does not deny that it is indicative that the decision to withdraw the Serbian diplomat was made four days before the new government took office.
The new government, he says, believes that the expulsion of ambassadors is not a good neighborly measure.
Radulovic told TV Vijesti of Podgorica that the issue of Bozovic’s expulsion was another that divided Montenegrin society, adding that the new government would try to reduce the number of such issues to a minimum.
He states that at this time, unfortunately, it is not possible to withdraw the decision, because Montenegro handed over to the state of Serbia a note that Božović is a persona non grata.
Speaking about Montenegro’s relations with Russia, Radulovic said that the new government will work to improve them, but, as he says, to the level that it does not violate our European strategic aspirations and goals.
Explaining the assessment on Twitter that he is proud to be part of the first democratic government, even though he was a member of the previous one for ten years, Radulović said he was aware that the announcement moved the public.
Previous governments were not completely undemocratic, Radulovic says, explaining that his announcement would have been, as he puts it, more comprehensive if he had written to a “completely democratic government.”
“I am not saying that previous governments were completely undemocratic, but that they may have been more or less democratic relative to some European standards and the western democracies that we fight for,” Radulović said, according to the Podgorica-based website Vijesti.
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