President of Montenegro, Milo Djukanovic, has said that threats are Serbia’s way of solving problems.
Asked about Serbia’s threats and Kosovo’s attempts to accelerate the membership to NATO, in an exclusive interview for the Pristina-based KTV TV, the President said he didn’t approve of the threats, as it had never been the way of resolving issues in international relations.
In terms of the Kosovo-Serbia relation, it’s very important that both sides show responsibility over the opened dialogue and try to develop it until they get the final solution.
President Djukanovic assessed that Serbia represented a platform for Russian interests in the Western Balkans (WB). “Over the past years, Montenegro showed that, despite being a small country in terms of its territory and population, it managed to defend its values and the right to freely choose its future.”
He added that Montenegro and all WB countries had been strengthened by the new intensity and quality of European unity following the Russian aggression on Ukraine.
Entrusting the mandate to Abazovic proves Montenegro’s emancipation
The President also stated that entrusting a mandate to Dritan Abazovic with forming a government proves Montenegro’s emancipation.
“If I didn’t see him as prime minister, I wouldn’t propose him, that’s clear. There is no doubt that the Democratic Party of Socialists said that it was ready to support the minority government, that it doesn’t like this model, that it prefers political power, being aware that it’s difficult to reach a consensus over this solution at the moment and therefore, we’re ready to support a minority government on one condition only,” he said in an exclusive interview for KTV.
According to him, that one condition is that all political goals, political priorities of this government must be in line with the pro-European and pro-Atlantic policy of Montenegro.
