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Montenegro’s President Accuses Serbia and Russia of Undermining Independence

Montenegro’s President Accuses Serbia and Russia of Undermining

Montenegro’s President Milo Djukanovic on Friday accused Serbia and Russia of using the Serbian Orthodox Church to undermine his country’s pro-Western government as it seeks European Union membership, Reuters reported.

Djukanovic said that a series of rallies against a religion law, which have been led by Serbian Orthodox clerics in the tiny Balkan country was intended “to question Montenegro’s independence.”

“If you are asking whether this is a continuity of the [attempted] destruction of Montenegro and obstruction of its intention to continue its path to [...] European and Euro-Atlantic integrations, there’s no doubt in that,” Djukanovic told Reuters in an interview.

“Moscow was unequivocal in stating its interests in the ongoing [religion] problem in Montenegro.”

Djukanovic accused Belgrade of reviving the nationalistic concept of a Greater Serbia, which contributed to the Balkan wars of the 1990s and former Yugoslavia’s collapse.

“We have no doubt that all the mechanisms of the implementation of the Greater Serbian state project have been put into motion, and that Montenegro is also a target,” he said.

“Serbia is rushing headlong into a dangerous trap of protection of allegedly endangered rights of [minority] Serbs [...] while endangering the sovereignty of other states,” Djukanovic said.

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