The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MVP) initiated disciplinary proceedings against ambassadors Miodrag Vlahović, Darko Pajović, Vera Kuliš and Sanja Vlahović for not acting on their instructions and not responding to ambassadorial consultations.
Vera Kuliš, Dušanka Jeknić and Miodrag Vlahović are in permanent employment, as was announced to "Vijesta" from the Ministry. "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is undertaking the necessary activities to fill the mentioned positions as soon as possible," the MFA replied to "News".
For serious violations of work obligations, disciplinary procedures are conducted by the government commission, and the highest sanction can be the termination of the employment contract.
On December 18 last year, the government proposed to recall the ambassadors of Montenegro to China, Darko Pajović, to the Holy See, Miodrag Vlahović, to Serbia, Tarzan Milošević, to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Obrad Mišo Stanišić, to the United Arab Emirates, Dušanka Jeknić, to Italy, Sanja Vlahović, and to Germany. Vera Kulis. Later, the Government submitted a motion to recall the Ambassador of Montenegro to Poland, Budimir Šegrt, who is suspected of abuse of office in the Meljine case.
The MFA gave ambassadors who were recalled by the Government until February 15 to complete all their obligations in the receiving countries, which not all of them complied with, taking advantage of the fact that the President of Montenegro, Milo Đukanović, did not sign the recall.
Miodrag Vlahović and Darko Pajović handed over their duties to the charge d'affaires last week, a day after the President of Montenegro signed the impeachment decrees. Đukanović did this last Wednesday, two months after the Government's proposal.
Vlahović, not wanting to hand over his duties, had previously replaced the lock at the Embassy, and Pajović did not want to return the seal.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs recalled that the ambassadors of Montenegro to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Italy, China, Germany, Poland, the Holy See and the Sovereign Knights of Malta and the United Arab Emirates were recalled, while the ambassador to Spain resigned.
"In accordance with the Law on Foreign Affairs and the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, Montenegrin diplomats have been appointed in the aforementioned embassies as temporary chargé d'affaires, who will manage the work of diplomatic and consular missions until the appointment of new ambassadors," the Ministry announced.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as announced, is undertaking the necessary activities to fill those positions as soon as possible.
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