Academician Igor Đurović reacted on the occasion of today's meeting between Prime Minister Duško Marković and the Presidency of the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts, within the Alliance for Europe initiative.
The reaction of academician Igor Đurović is transmitted in full:
"I am using the opportunity to publicly comment on today's meeting of Prime Minister Duško Marković with the leadership of CANU as part of the "Alliance for Europe", as a member of CANU.
Without going into the content, flow, tone and conclusions of the meeting, I believe that the Government's discussions with the budget beneficiary, whether it is the Academy or not, cannot be a substitute for a real dialogue on social problems. Faced with the crisis caused by the adoption of the Law on the so-called freedom of religion and with tens of thousands of people taking to the streets (according to the government's estimate, this is about 10 percent of the population, which is a curiosity in itself, and one would say that much more is being done...) the government fled into a fake (kobayagi) dialogue "Alliance for Europe". The Academy should not participate in such a dialogue. If it has the strength, the Academy or its leadership can invite interested parties to talks on a "neutral" ground, but it cannot act as a partner in the conversation instead of those to whom the Law refers or political parties when the issues are related to the political and electoral system.
There is plenty of evidence that this is a fake dialogue. The government avoided incorporating the main recommendations of the Venice Commission and the Council of Europe into the Law. The government has refused real dialogue with the Orthodox Church. The government signed agreements with other religious communities and passed a law whose key provisions refer only to one community, the Serbian Orthodox Church, thereby discriminating against the Church, and the law takes on an "apartheid" tone. To support or remain silent in the 2000st century about apartheid is a burden that both individuals and institutions will have to bear. The law was preceded by years of media satanization of the Metropolis through state and parastate media. Now the Government and the most responsible people are repeating the words (so that the hairs don't miss the mark) of that "cannon preparation" that has echoed for years in the electronic, printed and even educational space. Despite the call to the so-called dialogue The government and its media continue with media demonization of all those who think differently, first of all religious officials, but also every person who peacefully protests, baptizing them, among other things, as enemies of the state. Can there be dialogue under such conditions? Deputies of the ruling majority turned the Assembly into a courtroom that night, presenting numerous qualifications and insults, making that chamber reminiscent of Litostroton from XNUMX years ago, and the same and worse is still heard from state and parastate sources. No, it is not the atmosphere for the so-called European dialogue. All calls for reconciliation and dialogue have, in recent years, been mined and demonized by the media from the above-mentioned addresses that are now ostensibly calling for dialogue.
It was similar a few months ago when the constitutional provisions related to the Judicial Council were bypassed by the adoption of the Law which enabled the unanimous (Bolshevik) extension of the mandate of the most responsible in the judiciary. We are talking about a provision that was skilfully incorporated into the Constitution and which was supposed to force a dialogue between political parties in order to reach the persons who lead the judiciary through compromise, and not on the principle of party fanaticism. This is not the way to conduct the European dialogue either.
I would only refer to the failed dialogue on election conditions, which was skillfully sabotaged by the ruling majority. No, that is not the way to conduct European dialogue. There are countless examples of this kind of "dialogue", but let me stick to what is fresh.
The neighbor is barely visible from the shadow of the club
Instead of simulation, our society needs real dialogue. In order to reach it, one must first look in the mirror and realize that the reflection in it is not dreams and "ghosts of the past".
Unfortunately, I'm not optimistic that there will be a real dialogue because the neighbor is barely visible from the shadow of the baton and behind the skirts of the cartridges. On the other hand, I am optimistic that apartheid cannot be sustained and will end in the same way as in the case of the struggle for women's rights, against segregation in the USA or apartheid itself in South Africa, etc. A group of people who know what they want, using peaceful, Gandhian methods, will, sooner or later, realize their rights regardless of everything," concludes Đurović in his response.
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