Belgrade continues with the condemnations of Montenegro's Parliament Srebrenica Resolution with Foreign Minister Nikola Selekovic described it on Monday as ill-intended while saying "Podgorica's lectures" about Serbia's reactions were hypocritical.
The Parliament of Montenegro adopted the Resolution on the Genocide in Srebrenica last week and dismissed the country’s Justice Minister over his controversial statements on the 1995 genocide in Bosnia.
In continuous tit-for-tat statements following the Srebrenica Declaration, Montenegro’s President Milo Djukanovic said on Monday, that wherever genocide happened a sound politics should condemn it and added Srebrenica was not “Serbia’s but Bosnia and Herzegovina’s yard.”
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On Monday, following harsh criticism from Serbia’s regime and pro-government media, Montenegro’s Foreign Ministry warned the behaviour of Serbia’s state officials should not be the way to handle that inter-state communication and overall relations.
That, Selakovic said, had surprised him with its „hypocritical and cynical tone,“ adding it was inappropriate to call upon the friendship and brotherhood between the Serbs and Montenegrins and at the same time „defend the document whose ill intentions toward the Serb people cannot be denied by any additional readings and explanations.“
„Montenegro’s Foreign Ministry’s lectures about Serbia’s media and authorities for discovering real intentions of the Resolution about Srebrenica and for not accepting its content as a hand of friendship are signs of serious political hypocrisy. That has nothing to do with Serbia but with Montenegro’s internal problems in which Serbia has not and will not interfere,“ Selakovic said in a written statement.
He added the statements about the lack of collective responsibility were „phrases“ because Montenegro’s Parliament „did not personalise its condemnation of the Srebrenica event. That is, despite the opposite claims, an apparent attempt to stigmatise the whole Serb nation.“
