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Ten to Eight – Day of Mourning

Good morning! You’re reading a daily contextual review of the news that marked the previous day.

By Ljubomir Filipović, CdM observer

Day of mourning

A further nine persons have died of the coronavirus as of yesterday. Another 426 Covid cases were recorded in the last 24 hours. Most Montenegrin municipalities backed the initiative of the President of Montenegro, Mr Milo Đukanović, to declare 22 March a day of mourning and national remembrance for coronavirus victims. Recall, the President tweeted two days ago, backing the initiative of the activist, Mr Aleksandar Zeković. The initiative was supported by the Bosniak Party as well.

In memory of the victims killed by the coronavirus, flags in front of the Clinical Center of Montenegro will be flown at half-mast for seven days.

Spontaneous gatherings to honor victims of the pandemic were organized across Montenegro – in Podgorica, Budva, Bar and Cetinje.

One simply doesn’t tell those things to the IMF

While there are speculations that the speech of DPM, Mr Dritan Abazović, in the European Parliament significantly affected drop in the price of bonds, another reckless statement, but this time of PM, Mr Zdravko Krivokapić, may significantly affect distrust of international organizations in the ability of this government to settle its liabilities. He told that “his Government lacks the support of either the ruling majority or the opposition in Montenegro’s Parliament”. In a letter that the CdM portal published, one could see his lamenting and transferring responsibility on the former government, without any vision how to cope with it.

VukšićLeaks follow-up

NATO Secretary General, Mr Jens Stoltenberg, reacted following the affair of revealing classified data by the head of the ANB, Mr Dejan Vukšić. Asked by a journalist what he would say about this, he said he would not comment on Montenegro’s intelligence issues, but stressed they had been focused on the protection of classified data and documents, noting that they’d check on all allies, especially the new ones.

MP Raško Konjević, who discovered this affair, was speaking at the show hosted by Mr Darko Šuković, and explained that Mr Vukšić had been warned not to share this information, which he didn’t do until the session.

Reactions to the Sead Sadiković incident

I thought I wasn’t going to write about this, but after hearing the deafening propaganda and last night’s TV show, when Mr Sead Sadiković showed a trophy flag and told that “incidents in the Serbian world are treated as individual cases”, while in Montenegro are “a cardinal rule”, I simply had to react. It’s just the rhetoric that divides this country, poisoning it and doing everything to prevent any dialogue.

However, we all saw the video and are aware that it has nothing to do with Mr Sadiković’s first statement he gave to the Belgrade ‘Novosti’, whose pro-war rhetoric continues even 30 years later.

Mr Miodrag Miko Živković strongly reacted and noted that Mr Sadiković should have been ashamed. Mr Nikola Martinović, a lawyer, noted that it wasn’t an attack on a journalist, but on a man – Mr Sead Sadiković. And he was right. Sead was not attacked as a journalist, but as someone who had stolen the flag and provoked conflict. No propaganda can hide it. Sarajevo lawyer and journalist, Mr Senad Pećanin, told that the footage clearly proved Mr Sadiković caused the incident.

A girl who was in the car from which Mr Sadiković seized the flag, Ms Merien Đukić, told her story to the Podgorica City Radio.

Adnan Čirgić and Boban Batrićević being guests on a TV show

The Faculty of the Montenegrin Language and Literature in Cetinje has become the symbol of the fight for Montenegrin national emancipation and protection of civil rights and freedoms, and it’s why it bothers the current government. This was the assessment of Mr Adnan Čirgić, the dean and professor at that faculty, and Mr Boban Batrićević, speaking in a TV show titled ‘Zumiranje’ [in English: Zooming] on the public broadcaster, RTCG.

This would be all for today. Until tomorrow.

 

 

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