Gorčević: Intergovernmental conferences are attended by the prime minister, ministers of foreign and European affairs

Today's European Union-Montenegro Intergovernmental Conference, as well as yesterday's with Moldova and Ukraine, and every previous one ever held, are attended by the Prime Minister (or Deputy/Vice President) who heads the delegation and the Ministers of Foreign and European Affairs, said the Minister of European Affairs. Maida Gorcevic.

"The process of European integration is managed by the Ministry of European Affairs, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs implements Montenegro's foreign policy towards the EU. Other ministers can attend the MVK when the topic is closing chapters from their department, which is not the case today," she wrote on Iks.

"Vijesti" announced today that, according to the newspaper's knowledge, the Montenegrin delegation at today's Intergovernmental Conference with the EU, in Brussels, will not include anyone from the Ministries of Internal Affairs and Justice, which prepared most of the laws that were a condition for receiving a positive Report on fulfillment of temporary criteria for the rule of law.

Answering the questions of "Vijesti", Minister of Justice Andrej Milović accused Prime Minister Milojko Spajić and his cabinet of "scandalous attitude... towards the people who presented the complete process of obtaining IBAR in Chapter 23", as well as of wanting "someone else's work and attribute the results to themselves."