Montenegro will punish those who refuse to raise the Albanian flag
The mayor of Tuzi, a suburb of the Montenegrin capital Podgorica, populated predominantly by Albanians, Nik Djelshaj, issued a decree on Albanian Flag Day to decorate municipal buildings with these flags.
This was reported by in4s, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Dear friends, on the eve of Flag Day, I invite the government institutions of our municipality to display the national flag (of Albania – ed.) on this occasion,” Jeleshaj wrote on his Facebook page. “If my wish is not satisfied, the institutions may be fined by law!”
Nick Jeleshai
Typically, for many years in Montenegro it was forbidden to publicly display any flag other than the Montenegrin one.
However, after a number of scandalous incidents involving both local and visiting Albanians receiving fines for publicly displaying their flag, representatives of the Albanian diaspora in Montenegro, Albanian leaders of neighboring countries and representatives of Western countries became involved in the issue.
After this, the ban on displaying the Albanian flag was lifted.
However, a similar decision was not made regarding the Serbian flag, the public display of which was fined even during mass rallies at the beginning of the year against discrimination against the Serbian Orthodox Church, whose participants actively used Serbian tricolors.
Albanian Independence Day and Albanian National Flag Day are celebrated on November 28th.
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