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Agreement with the Church of Serbia legally void, says Vujanovic

Filip Vujanović/ foto: Screenshot Gradska TV

The Fundamental Agreement signed on 3 August between Montenegrin Prime Minster and Patriarch Porfirije is unacceptable for three reasons: concerning the relation between the country and church, its position in the public system and concerning other religious communities in Montenegro, assessed the former President of Montenegro, Filip Vujanovic, speaking in a special TV show aired on Gradska RTV.

From the position of the state, the agreement is totally unacceptable, Mr Vujanovic said, adding that Metropolitan Amfilohije would never ever sign it.

“The agreement completely annulled the history of the Montenegrin autocephalous church. Therefore, a big and important period of its history which Montenegro must be proud of, and the Serbian Orthodox Church should be as well.”

The former President pointed out that he was mostly surprised with the preamble and that he couldn’t understand the need to rush and sign the agreement secretly, as it happened.

Comparing his visit to Srebrenica while he himself was a prime minister with the one Abazovic had recently, Mr Vujanovic says that, whenever asked why he didn’t want to deliver a speech, he would respond he didn’t have courage to speak there.

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