Status of Serbs in Montenegro, opinion produces by Venice Commission regarding the Draft Law on freedom of religion and parliamentary elections in 2020 were key subjects in the meeting held in Kraljevo on Friday. Venice Commission opinion provoked the most animated discussion. Serbs from Montenegro, especially representatives of Democratic Front, had different opinion from Mr Aleksandar Vučić.
Mr Vućić said that Serbia had put in considerable diplomatic effort in the improvement of the first version of draft opinion.
“Opinion produced by Venice Commission has been improved, in favor of Serbian Orthodox Church and Serbian people in Montenegro”, said Mr Vučić.
One of DF leaders, Mr Milan Knežević said they didn’t have much to be satisfied with.
“I don’t trust courts in Montenegro. Church property can become state-owned in less than 15 minutes literally”, said Mr Knežević.
Day before the meeting, Mr Vučić’s collaborators were assuring Serbs from Montenegro that Venice Commission had thwarted the attempt of Montenegrin authorities to seize church property.
At the end, Mr Vučić didn’t express his own view on the opinion.
“That indicates that Mr Vučić didn’t want to further deepen the divisions within Serbian corpus”, says the source of Pobjeda.
President of Serbia said after the encounter with the Serbs from the region that the meeting hadn’t been easy at all.
