PM on Montenegro candidate status

Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic said that he expects Montenegro to gain EU candidate status by the end of the year. However, he said that it was too optimistic for Montenegro to hope to be accepted into NATO in 2010, but added that he was convinced that his would be the next country to be accepted into the Alliance. PM on Montenegro candidate status Speaking on the status of the Montenegrin Orthodox Church (CPC), Djukanovic told Radio Montenegro that the Church had been “unjustly stripped of its right to autocephaly”, but said that it would be restored. The Serbian Orthodox Church is currently the canonical Orthodox church present in that country. “We must be patient and persistent in the efforts to restore autocephaly, but that is not the job of the state,” Djukanovic said. He stated that the state institutions should not interfere in church-related issues, “but that the must guarantee freedom of religion for all citizens, including followers of the CPC”. Djukanovic, who is the leader of the ruling Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS), said that it would be a failure for his party and the Social Democratic Party (SDP) if they did not reach an agreement for forming the city government in Podgorica after the local elections that were held on May 23. Djukanovic denied media claims that he was personally interested in sacking the President of the Montenegrin Central Bank’s Council, Ljubisa Krgovic. “These are pretty stupid speculations. There is no personal motive,” said Djukanovic, who owns a 2.86 percent stake in Prva Banka – a local bank that the central bank is reportedly moving against. which the central bank is against, reportedly. Djukanovic said that the reports that he was working against the central bank because he owns Prva share were “especially dumb”.

PM on Montenegro candidate status

Speaking on the status of the Montenegrin Orthodox Church (CPC), Đukanović told Radio Montenegro that the Church had been “unjustly stripped of its right to autocephaly”, but said that it would be restored.

The Serbian Orthodox Church is currently the canonical Orthodox church present in that country.

“We must be patient and persistent in the efforts to restore autocephaly, but that is not the job of the state,” Đukanović said.

He stated that the state institutions should not interfere in church-related issues, “but that the must guarantee freedom of religion for all citizens, including followers of the CPC”.

Đukanović, who is the leader of the ruling Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS), said that it would be a failure for his party and the Social Democratic Party (SDP) if they did not reach an agreement for forming the city government in Podgorica after the local elections that were held on May 23.

Đukanović denied media claims that he was personally interested in sacking the President of the Montenegrin Central Bank’s Council, Ljubiša Krgović.

“These are pretty stupid speculations. There is no personal motive,” said Đukanović, who owns a 2.86 percent stake in Prva Banka – a local bank that the central bank is reportedly moving against. which the central bank is against, reportedly.

Đukanović said that the reports that he was working against the central bank because he owns Prva share were “especially dumb”.