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AUTHOR: M.J.- ANTENA M
Listening to the rhetoric in the Parliament and in general on the public stage, from people who are key players in the Montenegrin government, there is more than enough reason to forecast a tightening of relations with neighboring Croatia - said the editor-in-chief in the show At the end of the day, on Television E Antene M - Darko Šuković.
"Montenegro has had a series of open issues with Croatia before, in the last twenty-odd years, but the policy of the authorities in Podgorica and the policy of the authorities in Zagreb was such that these open issues did not turn into a problem. You will all remember Prevlaka, which at one point, it was almost, even formally, one of the important reasons for the armed conflict, not of Montenegro, but of the then joint state with Croatia are rewritten topics.
I mention Prevlaka because at one point it seemed like a huge problem, however, later with that temporary regime and, I repeat, the good-neighbor policy, and for good-neighborly relations, good-neighborly policies are needed in both countries, that unresolved issue was practically forgotten. Neither the issue of the ship Jadran, nor any other, burdened relations in any way, on the contrary. Croatia was, for the last twenty years, not only our first neighbor, but the first help of Montenegro, both when the agenda was to join NATO, and when the agenda was to fulfill the European agenda. Croatia has done a lot for Montenegro for free, always with good intentions. I don't remember any serious foul against Montenegro from Zagreb in a long, long time. And, then, suddenly came the Resolution on Jasenovac" - said Šuković with an "important note" that the resolution was not adopted twice by the Serbian Parliament and the conclusion - wise enough.
Defense Minister Krapović, regarding the case of General Lazarevic and the purchase of patrol boats, Šuković says, spoiled the impression he had of him, because he believed that he was, "by the standards of the Democrats", a decent MP.
"The argumentation given by the former Chief of the General Staff of the Army of Montenegro, Admiral Samardžić, compared to the argumentation given by Minister Krapović, for me is incomparably more convincing, more logical, clearer... When someone instead of concrete answers offers you labels as a denial, like which Minister Krapović reacted to in the press by saying that the questions of our journalist, most clearly, he said that he did not understand them, although it was not possible not to understand them - neither linguistically, nor logically, nor in any way, there is nothing in dispute in those questions. .. That means only one thing - that he had no answers to those questions," Šuković points out.
The purchase of patrol boats, on behalf of the Army of Montenegro, was questioned by the retired admiral Dragan Samardžić, explains Šuković and adds that the admiral clarified the essence of the story: that the commercial contract with the Keršip shipyard cannot be implemented according to the procedure that applies to contracts between two governments (G2G ). And that the tender for the job worth €120 million cannot be avoided, as well as the notification of the EU about that job.
In an interview with ETV, Šuković revealed exactly what Admiral Samardžić meant when he said that he was afraid that we would again find ourselves in a situation where the Minister of Defense orders them to report on what the President of Montenegro is doing in Brussels. Samardžić said this today on the DRV show of Antena M. Referring to the words of the former head of the GŠ VCG, the editor of Antena M says that he told him that in May 2021, the then Minister of Defense Olivera Injac asked her to inform her about the content of the conversation of the President of Montenegro Milo Đukanović and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in Brussels, as well as about what happened during the election of the then President of Montenegro to our Mission in that city. Admiral Dragan Samardžić was on duty in Brussels at the time.
