Work on drafting the controversial declaration on reconciliation between Serbs and Bosniaks has been suspended and the document is not likely to be made public, Pobjeda learns.
Several Pobjeda’s sources close to Democratic Front (DF) said that the document drafting was stopped after the meeting between Muamer Zukorlic and DF leaders in Belgrade had not been held, although it was announced by the former mufti of Sandzak and current MP in the Serbian Parliament.
In early February, Zukorlic told Pobjeda he would meet DF leaders, but it never happened.
“The meeting was planned to be held in the Serbian Parliament, but did not happen. It is obvious that Zukorlic changed his mind because of pressure from Serbian state leadership, but also very low support for the preparation of the document among Bosniak intellectuals in northern Montenegro,” the source told Pobjeda.
The president of the Municipality of Plav, Orhan Sahmanovic, was mentioned as a person involved in drafting the declaration. However he denied the allegations in a statement to Pobjeda.
“I have nothing to do with that declaration,” he said.
Sahmanovic was in Chechnya along with DF leaders Milan Knezevic and Andrija Mandic in January. Drafting declaration was discussed at a meeting with Chechnya leader Ramzan Kadyrov. However, a few days ago Sahmanovic told local Sandzak TV that such declarations were not necessary.
The draft declaration published by Pobjeda states that Serb and Bosniak national issue has not been solved.
“The authorities in Montenegro failed to open a dialogue on this issue. Instead, by the occasional abuse of individual politicians from both national communities, it simulated so-called concept of civic society thus hiding a brazen discrimination and regime’s violent assimilation policy. We the undersigned Serbian and Bosnian intellectuals ask the political representatives of the Bosniak and Serbian peoples to overcome the current divisions and the absence of any cooperation and to begin working together to resolve the issues that are of mutual interest to the two peoples,” the declaration states.
