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AUTHOR:M.J. GDNUS
The geopolitical changes that are underway threaten international law and the multilateral architecture on which global development was based after World War II, said former President Milo Đukanović.
"The bigger surprises, unfortunately unpleasant ones, are coming from the Western political hemisphere. In the Euro-Atlantic space, we are witnessing the escalation of political disorder, threatening violence as a method of resolving growing contradictions.
It is as if every day we agree more and more that the problem is democracy. There are more and more leaders in the democratic world who find a role model in authoritarian models of governance, justifying it with efficiency. It is as if we are all looking for a new sheriff in town," Đukanović said.
We must, he adds, resist this illusion and be persistent in defending our values on which we have built our successes for 80 years,” said Đukanović, among other things, at the “Path to Peace” panel, as part of the XIIGlobalBakuForum organized by the Nizami Ganjavi International Center.
The panel also included former President of the Republic of Croatia Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, former Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert, former President of the UN General Assembly and until recently EU Special Representative for the Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue and Other Regional Issues Miroslav Lajčák, former US Ambassador to the UK Philip Lader and others.
Đukanović says that he believes that these geopolitical changes are a challenge for the world as a whole.
“I would say this especially for Europe, and therefore for the least developed part of Europe, the Western Balkans. In the Western Balkans, we still do not have consolidated stability and we do not have a clearly defined perspective. The great-state nationalisms that led to the war in the Western Balkans in the 1990s have revived again and threaten stability and democratic life in our region,” said Đukanović.
