Deputy Prime Minister Budimir Aleksic he spent the previous two days on an official visit to Belgrade, and the executive authority informed the Montenegrin public about his meeting with the Minister of Culture there Nikola Selaković informed with a statement and an accompanying photo of the two on which there is no flag of Montenegro, but the national and national flags of Serbia are visible.
The announcement that was delivered to the media was also published yesterday on the Government's website (gov.me), with the same photo, taken in Selaković's office.
"Vijesti", bearing in mind its content, asked the government why the Montenegrin flag was not displayed during the meeting between Aleksić and Selaković, but, instead of it, the answer came from Aleksić's cabinet, which stated that the state flag was "properly displayed ".
"This is confirmed by numerous photos from almost all media, which denies malicious interpretations", said the office of the vice-president, submitting to "Vijesta" two photos from the meeting between Aleksić and Selaković, in which the Montenegrin flag can also be seen.
It is unclear, however, why the photos showing the national flag were not sent to the media, nor why the Government did not publish them.
The national flag can also be seen in the photos from yesterday's meeting between Aleksić and the Prime Minister of Serbia Miloš Vucevic, which are included in the announcement published on the website of the Government of Serbia (srbija.gov.rs).
Aleksić is an official of the New Serbian Democracy (NSD), and he was elected as the Deputy Prime Minister for Education, Science and Relations with Religious Communities at the end of July.
As he wrote in the press release on the occasion of the meeting with Selaković, he assessed that Montenegro and Serbia "belong to the same cultural tradition that has been shaped by the Christian Orthodox faith for centuries, as well as that the entire culture and creativity throughout the centuries has been carried out in the unique Serbian language."
Selaković's and Vučević's announcements do not mention this, and "Viječić" did not receive an answer from the government whether it was Aleksić's personal position or her position as well.
Aleksić, as stated in his announcement, pointed out that he was particularly pleased that his first interstate official visit was to Serbia and thanked Selaković "for the nice and warm reception, as well as the open and meaningful conversation about the possibilities of cooperation between the two countries in the field science, art, culture and education".
At the meeting, he writes, more intensive cooperation and the holding of joint events were agreed upon, and Selaković invited Aleksić to participate "in concrete events in the field of culture, both in Serbia and abroad."
"On that occasion, Minister Selaković stated that language is the basis of every culture, and emphasized that 'Vukov (Karadžić) the Serbian language is what unites Serbia and Montenegro, and what the Serbian people are proud of'. He noted that the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia is open to cooperation at the institutional level with the launch of new initiatives in the field of theater art, inter-museum cooperation and exhibition activities, and introduced Aleksić to the large infrastructure projects that Serbia is planning as part of holding the Expo 2027 exhibition in Belgrade. , the announcement reads.
In the Government's platform proposal on Aleksić's visit to Serbia, it is written that the two countries are developing traditionally good relations in the fields of culture, education, and science, and that the visit "will be an opportunity for the further development of those ties, as well as good neighborly relations...".
The expenses of Aleksić's official trip are borne by the General Secretariat of the Government.
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