The memorial plaque to Montenegrin admiral of the former Yugoslav People's Army, Vladimir Barović, 31 years after his death, was unveiled on Vis, in Croatia, by the Ministers of Defense and Foreign Affairs in the technical mandate, Raško Konjević and Ranko Krivokapić.
Krivokapić said that the announcement of the crime that led Barović to disobey the order, in the most honorable way he knew, was the first war in which it was braver not to take up arms than to take them and the first war to the shame of Montenegrin arms.
Laying a memorial plaque on Vis is, he believes, an example of how to nurture the culture of memory and the only correct way to build good neighborly relations.
"This is a message to all those who deny the existence of Montenegrins, that there are Montenegrins in every place where honor and freedom are defended," said Krivokapić.
The head of Montenegrin diplomacy pointed out that Euro-Atlantic Montenegro should be built on the example of Admiral Barović.
"By giving his life to preserve the honor of Montenegro, as a Montenegrin he preserved the old code of courage and heroism, but also set an example for building a modern society," Krivokapić said.
Konjević said that around the name of Admiral Barović, stories about face and honesty, about life and death, but also about the strong relations between the two countries, which must be a sure sign of mutual respect and treatment, will be carved around the name of Admiral Barović for all time.
He pointed out that this is a man and an officer, brought up and brought up on solid moral principles of military ethics, who knew how to distinguish eternity from dilapidation, humane from inhumane, general from personal, in a time that was anything but heroic.
"According to the Montenegrin concept of humanity, the only path to the face and to the face was the one he chose. Without the dilemma of choosing the path to follow, it remains the most stable bridge of values that connects and gathers, an example to which we return again and again," Konjević said.
The ceremony was attended by Croatian Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Gordan Grlić Radman, Minister of Defense Mario Banožić and Mayor of Vis Ivo Radica.
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