Montenegro’s NATO membership is something you can’t change any more, and termination of the ‘coup plot’ trial in Podgorica will put an end on fantasies that Montenegro can be returned to the past, Zoran Ostojić, a well-known Belgrade journalist and ex-MP, told Dnevne Novine daily.
If it were not for Milo Đukanović, Montenegro would be led by a man named Dodik, and it would be nothing more than a province of Serbia probably called the Serbian Republic – Montenegro.
“Even though currently there are protests in Belgrade and Tirana, the ones in Podgorica are certainly closely connected with the termination of the trial in the coup plot case in 2016, especially due to the fact that several leaders of the pro-Russian opposition have been involved in this whole affair. Those protests, along with Duško Knežević’s campaign, strive to discredit the expected final judgments of the trial. A lot of money has been invested in the attempts to prevent modernization of Montenegro and its Euro-Atlantic aspirations, so the organizers won’t stop just like that,” Mr Ostojić assessed.
As for the ‘civic’ protests with political requests, it’s evident the same model is in place in Belgrade. “The request are completely the same – transitional government and presidents’ resignation, and instigators are probably the same people.”
On the question what would happen with Montenegro if it weren’t for Mr Milo Đukanović in those crucial times of the Montenegrin history, Mr Ostojić told there would probably be a man named Dodik, who will have been running the Serbian province called the Serbian Republic – Montenegro.
“Results of the elections would be uncertain just like they are in Russia. And the inherited rocky land in this country wouldn’t worth a red cent,” claimed Mr Ostojić.
