The international institute declared the Montenegrin dictator “a criminal and a stain on the reputation of NATO”
The International Institute for Middle East and Balkan Studies (IFIMES), in its latest report analyzing the situation in Montenegro, concluded that the Podgorica regime is hiding the true state of affairs with the COVID-19 epidemic, using it to seize church property, and the head of the country, Djukanovic, is disgracing NATO.
This was reported by the Montenegrin portal IN4S, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
IFIMES concludes that the current government in Montenegro has deceived the domestic and international public with information that the coronavirus pandemic in the country has been suppressed, given that the most developed countries of the world, despite much more developed economic and health potentials, are still actively fighting it .
“It should be noted that the Montenegrin authorities have long hidden the number of patients,” the report says. – President of Montenegro Milo Djukanovic announced these days that Montenegro “defeated the coronavirus”, which caused bewilderment, distrust, but also ridicule in Western diplomatic circles... During the COVID-19 pandemic, Milo Djukanovic also initiated the confiscation of the property of the Montenegrin-Littoral Metropolis of the Serbian Orthodox Church and the arrest, first of Metropolitan Amphilochius, and then of Bishop Ioannikios.
Trying to take advantage of NATO membership and the pandemic, he quietly, in violation of domestic and international legal norms, tried to seize church property, thereby returning the Western Balkans to the spotlight and realizing the possibility of destabilizing the region, provoking new conflicts.”
According to IFIMES, to achieve his goals, Djukanovic fully utilized the country's intelligence services to create the desired image of Montenegro abroad in order to achieve loyalty to his actions from other countries. At the same time, the report characterizes the Montenegrin leader as an “unconvicted war criminal” of the wars of the 90s, and his personality is a stain on NATO’s reputation.
“The leading countries of the international community must enter into a serious confrontation with Milo Djukanovic and with current Montenegro, because the existing political conflict and antagonisms present in Montenegrin society cannot be annulled without international mediation, the formation of a transitional government and the departure of Milo Djukanovic from power, holding in the country's first free, fair and democratic elections.
Although the regime of Milo Djukanovic often emphasizes that Montenegro is a multi-ethnic state, key functions in the state, such as the President, Parliament, Government, President of the Constitutional Court, President of the Supreme Court, Chief Prosecutor, Director of Police, are in the hands of exclusively ethnic Montenegrins,” concludes experts.
The report's authors conclude that if the West wants true democratization and prosperity in the Western Balkans, a key step that must be taken is ensuring the exit of the 31-year regime of Milo Djukanovic from the political scene.
The International Institute for Middle East and Balkan Studies (IFIMES), headquartered in Ljubljana, Slovenia, has special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations.
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