Kaluđerović: Cetinje is marginalized, the SD-DPS government has been violating the Law on the Capital City for years

After Montenegro became an internationally recognized country at the Congress of Berlin in 1878, Cetinje received the status of a diplomatic center where the embassies of Austria-Hungary, Italy, France, Serbia, Turkey, Russia, Great Britain, Bulgaria, Germany and the Belgian consulate were opened. All the mentioned spaces were given a different purpose in the later period, so the Faculty of Fine Arts was also located in the former Russian Embassy. Years pass and the DPS-SD government does not fulfill its promises and violates the Law on the Capital City.

This was said by Boris Kaluđerović, President of OO SDP Cetinje and candidate for deputy on the "SDP – Strong Montenegro" list.

Kaluđerović explains that in 2012, the building of the former Russian embassy suffered major damage due to a fire. Three years later, the reconstruction and adaptation of this facility began, whereby the plan stipulated that the facility be adapted to the needs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of Montenegro, which will be permanently located there.

"The total investment amounted to 2,4 million euros. Although the citizens of Cetinje were promised several times that the mentioned ministry would be housed in a building that was renovated for that purpose (promises were made before the local elections in 2013, before the parliamentary elections in 2016 and immediately before the local elections in 2017) this has not happened to date, which grossly violated the Law on the Capital City without any explanation being given to the public. The building is falling apart, no one is responsible, and who knows what kind of deception the citizens of Cetinje are continuing," says Kaluđerović.

Kaluđerović asks the DPS-SD government how long they will continue to violate the law and says that Cetinje is being marginalized, and reminds that the relocation of the Constitutional Court has also been abandoned.

"Does anyone from the DPS-SD authorities feel responsible for the violation of the Law on the Capital and should they at least apologize to the citizens of Cetinje? Until when will this building rot empty and 2,4 million euros of the citizens of Cetinje and Montenegro have been invested in it ? Do any of you at least remember this promise when you visit Cetinje once every 4 years? And you could ask endless questions like this, that what the people of Cetinje would say is the better. However, one thing is certain, and that is that "Cetinje is consciously marginalizing itself and that it is not allowed to return even what it indisputably belongs to throughout history. The same fate is shared by the Constitutional Court of Montenegro, whose relocation to Cetinje you no longer mention," concludes Kaluđerović.