The arguments and positions of the leading people in the country, opposed to exclusivity and accusations about who is a member of which clan and who is engaged in smuggling cigarettes, cocaine... represent the greatest danger for the country, and I think we will forget about both the Russians and the Serbs with this organized institutional smuggling.
This was said yesterday at the session of the Committee for Security and Defense by the president of that parliamentary body Milan Knezevic.
Yesterday, the board adopted Knežević's initiative that next week the prime minister in his technical mandate will be interviewed Dritan Abazovic, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Rasko Konjević, Ministers of Interior and Foreign Affairs Filip Adzic i Ranko Krivokapic. They also accepted the proposal for the hearing of the Acting Supreme State Prosecutor Maje Jovanovic, the chief special prosecutor Vladimir Novović, Director of the Police Administration Zoran Brđanin, and the acting director of the National Security Agency, who was dismissed yesterday Sava Kentere.
Their hearing was proposed by Knežević because of the current events in the security sector and the field of international diplomacy.
Knežević said that, if it is true that the national security of Montenegro is threatened, "then we must do everything to protect national security", but also that someone must be held accountable if it is a lie and if it is advertised that someone is undermining our territorial integrity and sovereignty.
"Then someone must answer who, from the positions of high state functions or the highest in the state, spreads lies and alarms the public for the purposes of gaining political points or positioning in the government itself. Even much larger and more serious countries than Montenegro could not withstand this amount of information about threatened security, and I will remind you that it all started with the spectacular announcement of the National Security Agency (ANB) - that the arrest of a number of allegedly Russian and Serbian agents in to Montenegro who cooperate with the Russian and Serbian intelligence services", Knežević said yesterday.
He reminded that this information was immediately "taken over by a number of ministers", adding that on that day, during the Government session, Konjević had all the information at his disposal, and that Prime Minister Abazović "acted as Vojislav Koštunica".
Knežević also said that it is worrisome that, after "Konjević announced that he saved Montenegro from Russia and the Russians, the information of the Special State Prosecutor's Office came out that no one was arrested".
"And while the Serbs and Russians were chasing each other around Montenegro, someone was burning confiscated cigarettes, but in such a way that only as much as an ordinary smoker could smoke during the day was burned in those high ovens. The rest was estimated to be smuggled out of Montenegro," said Knežević.
He also pointed out that new mutual accusations between government representatives began after the disappearance of the cigarette truck and the arrest of the former director of the Revenue and Customs Administration. Rada Milosevic.
"So we forgot about Russian and Serbian agents and we have a new political folklore in which the Deputy Prime Minister accuses the Prime Minister of being connected to cigarette smuggling, and the Prime Minister accuses the Vice President and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of being the creators of this cigarette seizure affair. If we add to that the interview of Milošević, who clearly accuses ANB and Raško Konjević of being behind this action, which was aimed at undermining the authority and reputation of the Government and Dritan Abazović, and Ranko Krivokapić's position that the signing of the fundamental contract led to the fact that Montenegro will be rated the worst in the European processes so far...then I think that holding the session of the Board is absolutely necessary", said Knežević yesterday.
Assessing that the situation is alarming, he said that it is his duty as the chairman of the Committee for Security and Defense to come to conclusions that would calm the tensions in Montenegro to some extent.
"But, judging by what I heard at the session of the National Security Council, it seems to me that we are far from calming tensions and that this resigned Government has experienced a fiasco and that a solution should be sought as soon as possible in order to get out from this institutional chaos, because I'm afraid that if half of what we heard is true, there will be dead people in the Government itself," Knežević said.
Member of the Committee from the Socialist People's Party, MP Dragan Ivanovic, he told Knežević that he did not agree "that there will be dead people in the Government" and urged him not to scare the citizens "that there is some kind of conflict" because we are sending a bad message.
"Not really, there is no conflict there, it was read there Jacques Prever i Desanka Maksimović, I'm dramatizing it a bit since I was in Kosovo and I'm full of epic energy. We are not sending a bad message, they are," Knežević replied.
Member of the DF Jovan Vučurović he demanded that those who work for the British and American services be prosecuted, adding that he remembers when it was Mevludin Nuhodzic put artists on the list of ineligible. He pointed out that he found out that there were still Serbs on that list, accusing the former prime minister of that Zdravka Krivokapića and the former Minister of Finance Milojko Spajić, and then the Government Dritan Abazović in which "the anti-Serbs are sitting".
MP of DPS Predrag Boskovic he said that it is most dangerous to politicize such cases, adding that arguments will cross at the next session: "And we will hear a lot about who is spying and smuggling in Montenegro," said Bošković.
All members of the Board voted to hold the session, insisting that it be public.
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