Regarding the populist and politically driven request of Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vučić that Serbs in MNE should have the same rights guaranteed to all other citizens belonging to minority nations, the Ministry of Human and Minority Rights reacted, telling him that the Serbian people in Montenegro are not a minority nation but an equal social factor.
“We wish to remind him about the character of our state order – as a civil, non-nation-oriented state, and about the Montenegrin Constitution as an expression of protection and preservation of the political, legal and cultural position of all peoples living in an independent Montenegro,” the Ministry stated.
But President Vučić didn’t want to stop with this request but rather added another one – “We want Serbs to have the same rights Albanians do in North Macedonia.”
“We’d like to remind President Vučić that the Serbian community in Montenegro refused to be a minority and thus prevented itself from using rights stemming from the principle of positive discrimination, noting that this possibility always exists as an option in a democratic society,“ the Ministry said in a statement.
