Vučinić: Impeach Dinoša, return forcibly confiscated property of Montenegrins

The Workers' Party expects the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Đorđe Radulović, to urgently address the unacceptably difficult and humiliating situation of Montenegrin families in Kosovo, said the party's president, Maksim Vučinić.

The first step, as he pointed out, must be the recall of the Montenegrin ambassador in Pristina, Ferhat Dinoša, and the dismissal of the entire staff of the embassy, ​​as well as the appointment of a serious and experienced career diplomat who, through sincere efforts, will resolve the constitutional and legal position and adequate representation of the Montenegrin community in the Assembly of Kosovo.

Vučinić assessed that the Montenegrin people in Kosovo are discriminated against and that the previous Governments not only did nothing to regulate the formal and legal position of the Montenegrin community in Kosovo, but in agreement with the Kosovo regime were "direct accomplices and creators of the systematic destruction of the Montenegrin being, more precisely, the constitutional ethnocide of 28.000 Montenegrins in those areas."

"Four years ago, this pernicious and malicious policy towards our people and to the detriment of the state of Montenegro was carried out by the Montenegrin embassy in Pristina headed by Ferhat Dinoš. A quasi-diplomat who has so far only managed to employ members of his immediate and extended family in the institutions of Kosovo," said Vučinić.

In order for our community to be recognized as a constitutional category, as he pointed out, it is necessary for the Government of Kosovo to urgently begin the full implementation of the Strategy for the Integration and Affirmation of the Montenegrin Community, which it adopted in 2016, "which has been just a dead letter since then."

"It is necessary to undertake affirmative activities for the Montenegrin community living in Kosovo, with a special emphasis on the preservation and improvement of the comprehensive position and identity of this community. In such a way that the Development Center 'Petar II Petrović Njegoš' in Priština will be preserved and made functional. No less important is the need to work on the protection of the cemeteries of Orthodox Montenegrins, which are again and more often under attack from vandals. In addition to all of the above, the state of Montenegro must return forcibly confiscated property to our people and participate in the reconstruction of their destroyed and burned houses, thus creating conditions for sustainable survival," concludes Vučinić in the announcement.