The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MVP) did not receive a request from its colleagues from Belgrade that Montenegro stop using diplomatic representations of Serbia in the world, they told "Vijesta" from that government department.
That Montenegro stop using Serbian diplomatic missions in the world was one of the demands of the students of the Belgrade Faculty of Law, from the protest in front of the Montenegrin Embassy in Belgrade on December 27 last year due to the adoption of the Law on Freedom of Religion.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs says that any such request would be unfounded, since there are no Montenegrin diplomats in Serbian embassies, nor in any other embassies of third countries in the world.
"Montenegro does not share diplomatic missions with any other country," said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, headed by Minister Srđan Darmanović.
They remind that the Agreement on mutual representation in the provision of consular protection and services in third countries between Montenegro and Serbia dates from 2013, and is regularly implemented.
"The aforementioned consular services are not free and the country that provides them charges administrative fees. In accordance with the current Agreement, Serbia represents Montenegro in about 30 countries where Montenegro does not have its own diplomatic consular offices", stated the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
They add that Montenegro also has the mentioned agreement with Poland, Bulgaria and Croatia.
"Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina mutually provide consular protection to their citizens and services for obtaining visas for foreign citizens through diplomatic-consular missions in third countries, where one of the contracting parties does not have its own diplomatic-consular mission. The agreement between Montenegro and Turkey on the provision of consular protection to Montenegrin citizens was signed on February 11, 2020. When it enters into force, it will include the representation of Montenegro in 25 countries", said the MFA.
At the protest in front of the Embassy of Montenegro in the center of Belgrade, the students demanded that Serbia initiate a debate before the UN Security Council and the Council of Europe on the Law on Freedom of Religion and the position of Serbs and the SPC in Montenegro, that the Ambassador of Montenegro to Serbia, Tarzan Milošević, be declared persona non grata, as well as "to cancel Montenegrin diplomats' hospitality and accommodation in about 40 Serbian diplomatic missions around the world".
Torches and firecrackers were lit at the protest, and the demonstrators tried to burn the Montenegrin flag.
A new attempt to burn the Montenegrin flag happened on January 3 this year, when a group of fans gathered in front of the Montenegrin Embassy. They fired firework rockets at the Montenegrin flag, parts of which were burnt.
Serbia: We represent Montenegrin citizens in 42 countries
And the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia confirmed that Montenegro does not use diplomatic representations of that country in the world, but on the basis of the Agreement on mutual representation in the provision of consular protection and services in third countries, which was signed on April 19, 2013 and entered into force on April 16, 2014. June XNUMX
With this agreement, Serbia represents Montenegrin citizens in 42 countries. These are Algeria, Angola, Australia, Belarus, Brazil, Denmark, DR Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Finland, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Japan, Jordan, South Africa, Canada, Qatar, Kenya, Cyprus, Cuba, Kuwait, Libya, Morocco, Mexico, Myanmar, Nigeria, Norway, Peru, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Slovakia, Sweden, Tunisia, Ukraine, Zambia, Czech Republic and Qatar.
The Ministry headed by Ivica Dačić did not respond to the question of whether they had considered the students' requests.
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