Sekulić: The eventual joining of "Little Schengen" is wasting energy on something we have already done

"Montenegro, as a member of CEFTA, has no open issues with any country in the region, especially not with the countries that are the initiators of this initiative, which is not the case with each other. So it is completely clear that Montenegro has already opened its borders," she said. Sekulić guest tonight in the Dnevnik of the Television of Montenegro
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The Minister of Economy, Dragica Sekulić, announced tonight that within the framework of international organizations and initiatives, Montenegro has already fulfilled a large part of what is contained in the latest initiative of the leaders of Albania, North Macedonia and Serbia ("Little Schengen") and that our country does not have any trade or other barriers towards other countries, but that he understands the need of those countries that have been putting up barriers for each other to come up with a new initiative, the Government of Montenegro announced.

"The fact is that for the first time we got acquainted with the text of what they called the 'action plan for accelerating the free flow of goods, people, services and capital' yesterday morning at the meeting itself. There is nothing new in that paper that we have already we did not have in various declarations and agreements. Montenegro, as a member of CEFTA, has no open issues with any country in the region, especially not with the countries that are the initiators of this initiative, which is not the case with each other. So it is completely clear that Montenegro is already opened its borders", said Sekulić, guest tonight in the Dnevnik of the Television of Montenegro.

Sekulić said that Montenegro has fulfilled all the recommendations of the Berlin Initiative, that the citizens of our country are already traveling using the identity card as a document to all countries of the region except Croatia.

"There is nothing new here that we haven't already done. I consulted my colleagues today and asked how the verification of that action plan looks like. They wrote to me on the side: CEFTA, measure so and so - implemented, Berlin initiative, measure so and so - implemented ", Sekulić said.

She added that our eventual joining this initiative would only be a waste of energy on something we have already done.

"I understand the initiators, they are countries that, due to the various trade barriers they set up for each other, may need a new initiative in order to promise again and again that they will do what we have already done a long time ago," Sekulić concluded.

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