The Municipal Committee (OO) of the Civic Movement URA Kotor announced today that the President of the Government of Montenegro, Duško Marković, and the President of the Municipality of Kotor, Željko Aprcović, are in conflict over cooperation with UNESCO.
"While Prime Minister Marković announced the position of the Government of Montenegro on full and unconditional cooperation with UNESCO, the DPS of Kotor continued to make decisions with its satellites contrary to the stated position. That everything in Montenegro has gotten out of control and that for the implementation of laws, decisions, memorandums and international conventions, no one cares anymore because there is absolutely no fear of sanctions, it was shown in the Kotor parliament when the DPS and its satellites, despite the irrefutable facts presented by URE councilor Ljiljana Popović-Moškov about the violation of a number of domestic and international laws, voted the Settlement Decision in order to introduce a certain contractor to the work of building an "underpass" on the Kotor waterfront," the announcement of the Kotor GP URA points out.
From that party, they added that the new parliamentary majority in Kotor was not for a moment worried by the fact that their colleagues issued a tender for the construction of an underpass in December 2016 worth 1,5 million euros, in an illegal way, since that investment was not included. the budget that they voted for in 2016, as well as the Capital Investment Program that they also passed and voted for in 2016.
"The new parliamentary majority in Kotor was not for a moment confused by the logical fact that a settlement decision was proposed with the party that sued the Municipality and which dispute the Municipality won. the demands of the party that sued us, the president of the municipality Aprcović ignores and despite the decisions of the judges from the said courts, of his own free will accepts the claims and proposes a settlement. also violated Article 172 of the operational guidelines for the implementation of the UNESCO Convention for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, according to which for any intervention in the area of the protected area, and before making any decisions, the UNESCO office should be sent a notification, project, etc. in order to give their opinion. This new parliamentary majority was not for a moment worried by the fact that for this kind of intervention in the area, a legally prescribed HIA study must be done," said the Kotor URE.
They state that to the presented and documented facts, the President of the Municipality Željko Aprcović did not present a single counterargument, except that he repeated 100 times that they did not break any law, because, as he said, "the subject is included in the Strategic Plan of the Municipality 2013-2017", and he knows good that it is not an automatic prerequisite for the public procurement plan and the creation of preconditions for tendering.
"He also said that in 2015 the Assembly passed a decision on the "location" for the tunnel, and he knows very well that determining the location cannot be a legal prerequisite for the public procurement plan and a prerequisite for tendering, as well as presenting the "argument" that they did project, and he knows very well that having a project is not a legal prerequisite for a public procurement plan and a prerequisite for tendering. The fact that the law recognizes only the adopted budget for the current year and the adopted Capital Investment Plan for the current year as the only legal basis for the formation of the Public Procurement Plan and announcing a tender for the same is not relevant for President Aprcović, just as the judgments of the Appellate and Commercial Courts, as well as the operational guidelines of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, are not relevant, and it seems that he does not care what Prime Minister Marković says," he concludes. in the announcement of OO GP URA Kotor.
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