Mr Djukanovic stressed that the DF’s protests were against democratic, pro-European and Euro-Atlantic Montenegro.
There is no doubt, he says, that protest organisers want to violently, unconstitutionally and undemocratically change the government, and thus to achieve the goal which they have not been able to reach through democratic elections over the past 25 years.
“They still ultimately want to jeopardise the decision that citizens of Montenegro made on democratic referendum in 2006 to be an independent and sovereign state, which determines its future. So, they want to overturn that and to return Montenegro again to a state of dependency on the centres to which they belong and whose objectives they serve,” Mr Djukanovic said.
He added that the protest organisers were strongly supported by the Belgrade-based circles supporting the idea of Greater Serbia, but not by the official policy of Serbia.
“But, the same circles supporting the idea of Greater Serbia, gathered around certain political structures and specific social centres of power, such as the Serbian Orthodox Church, i.e. all those structures that used to be against Montenegro’s independence support protests in Montenegro today very strongly and very openly, with the aim to cause change of the government, reviewing the constitutional status of Montenegro and, if possible, to bring Montenegro back into the sphere of interests and sphere of influence and control of those circles in Belgrade,” PM said.
After two releases of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr Djukanovic said that there was no doubt that the Russian policy supported the organisers of the protest, and that its goal was to stop NATO enlargement process in the Balkans.
“That is why we have to unequivocally conclude today that the organisers of the protests in Montenegro have a stronghold in certain political centres, as well as economic and security and all the other centres outside Montenegro,” Mr Djukanovic said.
According to him, the organisers of the protests were politically unoriginal and copied events in our near or far environment.
“Think of Egypt and the Arab Spring – these people immediately were calling on a “Montenegrin spring”. Remember the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, they immediately invoked “orange revolution” in Montenegro, remember the trials conducted against former PM Ivo Sanader in Croatia, they immediately invoked on “sanaderisation” of Montenegro. Now they invoke repeating the Macedonian scenario. Therefore, they are not only dissatisfied with their current status, but they are also afraid of the next general election,” the PM explained.
According to him, after joining NATO, the DF will lose the last chance to destabilise the country, but also the illusion that they can cancel Montenegrin independence.
“We have no choice, we have to go the way we have chosen, because I think it would be tragic both for us and for the Balkans as a whole if any country returned to positions the Balkans used to be on for centuries and the positions due to which we were killing each others on religious and ethnic grounds every 30 or 40 years,” Mr Djukanovic said.
He said that the state policy was to do everything to defeat “the last resistance to such a course”.
