At the session of the Foreign Affairs Council of the European Parliament, the President of Montenegro, Jakov Milatovic, has said that Montenegro has been committed to the EU membership, believing that a palpable progress can be achieved by the end of the year. In addition, he’s said that following the 2020 parliamentary elections, Montenegro started practicing democracy.
Mr Milatovic presented the events in the country after the political changes in 2020, which, according to him, have been shaped with this year’s presidential and parliamentary elections.
“I conveyed an impression of Montenegro, which is becoming a truly democratic country, a country that finally has the political will to become part of the EU, where the standard of living is increasing thus approaching the EU average in the economic sense, and where the institutions are shaped in a way that there are no more people who are part of organized crime and corruption, but individuals who work in the public interest,” the President said, among other things.
After establishing the new convocation of the assembly next week, they’re going to start consultations with the political actors in the country, he added.
President Milatovic believes that representatives of all peoples should be part of the government, but that it shouldn’t be formed only based on that principle. According to him, they should see who can make the greatest contribution to the improvement of reforms so that Montenegro can become the next EU member state.
He added that representatives of minority nations should be part of this and every other Montenegrin government, particularly pointing out to the importance of the next EC Progress Report on Montenegro.
As for his request to postpone the above-mentioned report, he explained to MEPs that it wasn’t a formal initiative. “There’s no any kind of formal way to do it, only a sincere and open talk, an explained intention why I said it publicly, so that both the new convocation of the assembly and government can have time to make some progress, particularly when it comes to the appointments which are key for further progress and positive outcome of the report”.
