Tomorrow, EU member states will vote on how many chapters Montenegro will close by the end of the year in the accession negotiations, CdM learns from diplomatic circles. This means that tomorrow it will be known whether Croatia will also block the closing of chapters.
The media previously announced that Croatia handed Montenegro a non-paper in which our country’s attention was drawn to a number of unresolved disputes between the two countries, among which are: the non-agreed, and therefore undefined border at sea, the unresolved issue of the ownership of the school ship of the former Yugoslav army, Jadran, the lack of prosecution of all perpetrators of war crimes against Croats in the early 1990s and the name of the swimming pool in Kotor, which the Kotor local authorities named after Zoran Dzimi Gopcevic, who in the early 1990s century was a guard in the camp in Morinj, where Croats were held captive in the then occupied part of Croatia.
This summer, the Croatian government declared Montenegro’s Parliament Speaker Andrija Mandic, DPM Aleksa Becic and the DNP leader and MP Milan Knezevic personae non gratae, due to, as stated, systemic actions to undermine good-neighborly relations with Croatia and continuous abuse of Croatia for internal political purposes.
As Croatia emphasized at the time, good neighborly relations are one of the key elements of the enlargement process as well as the stabilization and association process and one of the key criteria for evaluating progress in Montenegro’s accession process, in accordance with the European Union’s Negotiating Framework for Montenegro.
Yesterday, the Montenegrin Government made a decision to cede the Josip Markovic Cultural Center in Tivat to Croatia.
