Abazovic arrives in Belgrade tomorrow for meeting with Vucic: Warming of Serbian-Montenegrin relations
Montenegrin Prime Minister Dritan Abazovic will pay an official visit to Belgrade tomorrow, where he will be received by Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic, with whom he will have a bilateral meeting and a meeting of the delegations of the two governments, followed by a meeting with President Aleksandar Vucic. , said the MIA correspondent from Belgrade.
Relations between Montenegro and Serbia currently include several open issues, and ahead of the visit, Abazovic said he was coming to Belgrade with the best of intentions and wanted to raise relations between Montenegro and Serbia to a higher level.
Abazovic is coming to Belgrade with a large 11-member delegation, including Agriculture Minister Vladimir Jokovic, Finance Minister Aleksandar Damjanovic and Environment, Physical Planning and Urban Planning Minister Ana Novakovic Djurovic.
Abazovic, according to the government platform, will discuss with Serbian officials current issues of interest to Montenegro, issues for further co-operation, in order to improve political dialogue and strengthen bilateral relations.
According to Serbian media, the government claims that Abazovic's official visit, in the first months of taking office, indicates Montenegro's desire to build more open good neighborly and friendly relations with Serbia in the future.
The main topics defining relations with Belgrade are Montenegro's accession to the Open Balkans initiative and the signing of a Framework Agreement with the Serbian Orthodox Church, which are points of contention within the Montenegrin government itself and the parliamentary majority that supports it.
Among the issues that have long plagued relations between official Podgorica and Belgrade, inherited by the Abazovic government, are the extradition of former Serbian-Montenegrin President Svetozar Marovic, the absence of an ambassador to both countries and the detention of the Serbian border. of Montenegrin lawmakers who voted for the Srebrenica Resolution.
Source: MIA