Vulin and the delegation wanted to enter Montenegro in uniform: Did they change into civilian clothes and enter?

Serbian Defense Minister Aleksandar Vulin with his assistant Milan Ranković and Serbian Army officers Rajko Milovanović, Mihailo Zogović, Vesko Mimović and Vasilij Furundžić laid a wreath today at the grave of former Federal Minister of Defense Pavlo Bulatović in Gornji Rovci.

The delegation of Serbia entered Montenegro in civilian clothes after it did not receive permission from the Montenegrin authorities to do so in military uniforms, Democratic Front (DF) MP Jovan Vučurović told "Vijesta".

The visit of Vulin and the Serbian delegation is private, as the official visit has not been announced.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Montenegro, Srđan Darmanović, said today that the visit of Serbian Defense Minister Aleksandar Vulin to Gornji Rovci was not a state visit, but a private one, and that the military uniform is used according to protocol.

The Law on Foreigners of Montenegro stipulates that a foreigner may wear a foreign military uniform during his stay in Montenegro.

DF MPs Milutin Đukanović and Milun Zogović attended the laying of a wreath on Bulatović's grave.

After laying the wreath, the delegation from Serbia and DF MPs went to the church where a liturgy was held on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Bulatović's murder.

The liturgy was served by Metropolitan Amfilohije of Montenegro and the Littoral.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs approved the visit

Vulina's visit was approved yesterday by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Montenegro, "Vijesti" has learned from the Government.

Bulatović was killed on February 7, 2000 in the Rad Football Club restaurant in Belgrade.

The investigative committee of the Serbian Parliament found that he was liquidated because he tried to prevent machinations during the procurement of military equipment.

There is no information that anyone in Rovci officially made a memorial to Bulatović since 2001.

"Večernje novosti" announced on Sunday that Vulin asked the Montenegrin authorities that the delegation, which he leads, on Tuesday in Montenegro mark two decades since the murder of Pavle Bulatović.

The Minister of Defense of Serbia, along with the head of diplomacy Ivica Dačić, is the harshest critic of the policy of the Montenegrin authorities, after the adoption of the Law on Freedom of Religion.

"No one is preventing the government of Montenegro from inventing its own church, just as it invented the occupation of Serbia," Vulin said in January and said that the official Podgorica does not expect Serbia to remain silent while the holy places of the Serbs are stolen.

After the adoption of the Law at the end of December, he said that trampling on the rights of the SPC and the feelings of the Orthodox Serbs in Montenegro is already being taken as an example that will be followed by the temporary institutions in Pristina.

Awarded to Andrija Mandić

In January of this year, Vulin presented one of the leaders of the DF, Andrija Mandić, with a military memorial medal for his contribution to the Serbian defense system, as well as an officer's saber.

On that occasion, Vulin said that everyone who defended FRY in 1999 deserves equal attention and respect, regardless of whether they are citizens of Serbia or Montenegro. Vulin did not answer the questions of "Vijesti" regarding the awarding of Mandić.