The Mayor of Ulcinj, Genci Nimanbegu, said that there is a possibility that Prime Minister Milojko Spajić and Minister of Public Works Majda Adžović could be declared persona non grata in the southernmost Montenegrin municipality.
"Maybe we will propose an initiative to the Parliament to declare them persona non grata. Maybe we will propose Spajić as well. I don't know if we can do that by law. I really don't know how to deal with these people anymore," Nimanbegu said on the show "Last Sunday" on Aplus Television.
He added that he is deeply disappointed in the state of Montenegro and the officials who supported the agreement with the United Arab Emirates.
Nimanbegu denied, as he put it, "stories and spin" that Albanians in Montenegro are not giving up Velika Plaža because of the plan to create a Greater Albania.
"These are media spins and they are absolutely false. Such vocabulary is so harmful," he said.
He also said that the entire system cannot be collapsed for the sake of an investor like Sheikh Mohamed Alabar.
"Alabar is not naive at all. Just look at his career and what happened with Belgrade on the Water. He got free land and is developing real estate there," concluded Nimanbegu.
He assessed that the speed with which the Agreement with the United Arab Emirates was adopted indicates a lack of transparency and that the process is murky.
"You can't buy a car or shoes in a month. You can't eat bread and crackers. You have to work. But these people only see dollars and euros. We are all small before society and before God, and I have asked all of Montenegro to solve this problem," Nimanbegu pointed out.
He wondered why the state would let someone build apartments in a protected area.
"The Big Beach has been a protected area since 1968. Why did we pass laws on land expropriation and urban planning when we suspend them with one agreement?" Nimanbegu asked.
He said that the local community and self-government will defend Velika Plaža until the end.
"I am determined in this. And let them do whatever they want and think whatever they want. We will defend Velika Plaža and we will defend it. This is a landing on Ulcinj," Nimanbegu believes.
He also revealed that he had informed Albanian officials about the agreement with the UAE and the opposition of the local community.
"I wrote to the President of Albania, Bajram Begaj, and the ambassador. They have a constitutional obligation to know what is happening with the minority community. I am fulfilling my institutional role, and let them do the same. If they are not fulfilling it – that is a signal to us," Nimanbegu pointed out.
He recalled that, after the topic of the agreement, one could hear and read various media spins that Albanians in Montenegro have dual citizenship, and said that this was "absolutely untrue."
"We only have Montenegrin citizenship. Albania does not have a system that automatically grants citizenship to its compatriots," claims the first man of Ulcinj.
He said that the Government and the Europe Movement were now trying, in the midst of the talk about the Agreement with the UAE, to attack the citizens of Ulcinj and the mayor, stating that they do not know what is good for them.
"They know everything, they have drunk all their brains, and we are against investments. Believe me, it is an instrument of a group of people who are doing very wrong things. They forced a local government to spend the Municipal Day in protest," said Nimanbegu.
He said that Prime Minister Milojko Spajić "should hit himself on the forehead" and look at the path of citizens, NGOs, and public officials who warned about this agreement.
"The agreement passed, but it is bad, and the consequences are so disastrous," added the mayor of Ulcinj.
As he assessed, working on the contract would mean renouncing the sovereignty of the state's territory towards an investor.
"All of this gives me the right to point out to the prime minister and the MPs that they should not make the same mistake again. This is a red card for Montenegro, and after that, the Big Beach would be given to an investor. We are used to hasty steps from the prime minister, and everything is very frivolous, especially after such a public reaction," Nimanbegu noted.
He reminded that Albanian parties are against this agreement, such as the opposition parties and the DNP, led by Milan Knežević.
"Knežević has the same views that we have. And I interpret DPS's departure from the school hall as their way of expressing their position. I also read the statements of MPs Nikola Rakočević and Nikola Janović, who are against this agreement. In mid-April, I wrote to all parliamentary clubs, because this is not a topic of the week or the month. This is the topic of the year, and even the decade, how the Government has behaved towards its work so far," concluded the first man of Ulcinj.
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