"Montenegro could reconsider Kosovo"

Montenegrin PM Milo Đukanović says his country is ready to reexamine its recognition of Kosovo independence should the ICJ qualify Pristina's act as illegal.

Source: FoNet

Friday, 03.07.2009.

10:41

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Montenegrin PM Milo Djukanovic says his country is ready to reexamine its recognition of Kosovo independence should the ICJ qualify Pristina's act as illegal. Djukanovic underlined that the Montenegrin political scene was absolutely aware of the responsibility it had for fostering the best possible inter-state relations with Serbia. "Montenegro could reconsider Kosovo" "In talks with our colleagues from Serbia and Europe, we strenuously promote the significance of Serbia’s dynamic pro-European development for the whole region,” he stressed. “Serbia’s the biggest country in the region. For all of us in that composition who want to reach that goal, it’s important that Serbia should be either the engine or in the front line, and not be in some other part, because then, as the biggest, it would effectively hold the whole composition back,” the prime minister explained. Asked whether he was afraid that Serbia would falter on its EU path, he replied: “If you say you’re all going to the EU together, we get the feeling the tempo will be set by the slowest, whereas it’s better for us all for the tempo to be set by the quickest of us, who will pull and spur the others along.” “I wasn’t just thinking of Serbia. You see what’s going on in Bosnia. It’s going to take some time there to reach a structure, through constitutional change or otherwise, that the EU will recognize as partnerial,” said Djukanovic. “Our fear is that by proclaiming a new approach—you all go in a package—sluggishness could set in in the region, which could play into the hands of those voices in the EU that Europe is tired of enlargement. Europe’s strategic goal is unification,” said the prime minister. Milo Djukanovic (Tanjug, archive)

"Montenegro could reconsider Kosovo"

"In talks with our colleagues from Serbia and Europe, we strenuously promote the significance of Serbia’s dynamic pro-European development for the whole region,” he stressed.

“Serbia’s the biggest country in the region. For all of us in that composition who want to reach that goal, it’s important that Serbia should be either the engine or in the front line, and not be in some other part, because then, as the biggest, it would effectively hold the whole composition back,” the prime minister explained.

Asked whether he was afraid that Serbia would falter on its EU path, he replied:

“If you say you’re all going to the EU together, we get the feeling the tempo will be set by the slowest, whereas it’s better for us all for the tempo to be set by the quickest of us, who will pull and spur the others along.”

“I wasn’t just thinking of Serbia. You see what’s going on in Bosnia. It’s going to take some time there to reach a structure, through constitutional change or otherwise, that the EU will recognize as partnerial,” said Đukanović.

“Our fear is that by proclaiming a new approach—you all go in a package—sluggishness could set in in the region, which could play into the hands of those voices in the EU that Europe is tired of enlargement. Europe’s strategic goal is unification,” said the prime minister.

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