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SOURCE: TV E- AUTHOR: M.J. GDNUS
From 1995 to 2020, relations with Croatia were on an upward trajectory, and now you have Deputy Prime Minister Aleksa Bečić who is persona non grata in that country, said Miloš Đuričković from the European Union in the show Na kraju dana, on Television E.
Đuričković states that the Deputy Prime Minister for Foreign Policy answers to the European parliamentarian via social networks, and that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been transformed into a travel agency.
He pointed out that when Montenegro joined NATO, it did not have the problems with Croatia that it has now - but that we had full support to become a member of that alliance.
"When you take the European integration process, these are the people who delivered translated documentation to the authorities in Podgorica, provided expert assistance, lobbied for our interests, were truly true neighbors and good friends, wished us well, and tried to get the best we could. Then there is a change of government in 2020, and what are we returning to? We are returning to the politics of the Democrats, Minister Krapović, Aleksa Bečić, which has ended in the meantime. After 1995 to 2020, meaning after 25 years of upward trajectory of relations, you suddenly have a Deputy Prime Minister who is persona non grata in Croatia, you also have the President of the Parliament, and other people who are on the blacklist," he said.
He also assessed that Defense Minister Dragan Krapović is getting into primitive, verbal conflicts with his colleagues from Croatia.
"Some of these structures are questioning the way the Prevlaka issue is resolved, international arbitration mechanisms are no longer mentioned, not even dialogue is mentioned, 'either they will be ours, or we will go to war' they just didn't say that, but we know that's what they mean. You have a downward trajectory," said Đuričković.
The correspondence between Deputy Prime Minister for Foreign Affairs Filip Ivanović and European Parliamentarian Tomislav Sokol may, Đuričković believes, have a negative impact on Montenegro.
"It's a matter of character and the same applies to other MEPs," he added.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is inactive, Đuričković believes, because in the last three or four years, the Ministry has, according to him, turned into a tourist agency.
"That way of communication is not good, and I would say unnecessary. That is not the role of the Deputy Prime Minister, nor is there a need, and if he had a need to respond to him, there is a way in which he could have responded, but the way of communicating via social networks is quite frivolous, it does not befit the function he performs. We can do that as private individuals, to joke around, or something similar, or if we are performing some other not so responsible and important tasks for the state, but from the position of Deputy Prime Minister it is not permissible, and it creates a false image of the entire system. "Let me put it this way, it creates the right image, maybe it's a good thing that happened," concluded Đuričković.
