The meeting of the Council for Defense and Security is scheduled for Friday, and its main topic will be a letter from the Chief of the General Staff of the Army of Montenegro (ACG), Zoran Lazarevic, to the members of the Supreme Command, in which he accuses the Minister of Defense, Dragan Krapović, of actions that harm the ACG and undermine its combat readiness. unofficial "News".
According to unofficial information from "Vijesti", both Lazarević and Krapović were invited to the session.
Several Montenegrin media announced at the end of last week that Lazarevic, in a letter to the members of the Council, accused Krapović of undermining the combat readiness of the VCG, that he "improperly and harmfully ordered that all the activities of the Chief of the General Staff abroad be removed from the Work Plan of the VCG for October... ", that he does it "unfounded, deliberate, and continuously...".
"... Trying to present the work of the Army units, as well as his (Lazarević's) work, as low-quality, unproductive and insufficiently professional, and all in a way that does not befit a minister of defense".
In mid-September, Lazarević sent a request to the head of state and the chairman of the Council, Jakov Milatović, to "accept and sign" the decision on his dismissal from the head of the VCG, which was proposed by Krapović at the end of August.
On August 28, Krapović submitted to the Council a proposal for the dismissal of Lazarevic - due to "the assessment that a generational change and rejuvenation of the officer cadre in the VCG is needed" - but the supreme command rejected it because there was no consensus among its members on this.
The three-member Council, which consists of the heads of state, the Assembly and the Government, decides unanimously, and Milatović opposed Krapović's proposal, saying that he would support Lazarević's dismissal when he is told what the general did not do properly or what he did badly. The remaining two members, Parliament Speaker Andrija Mandić (New Serbian Democracy) and Prime Minister Milojko Spajić (Europe Now Movement) supported Krapović's proposal.
After that, on September 3, Krapović annulled the decision by which Lazarević's term of office was extended last year until the following June, stating that the Chief of the General Staff meets the conditions for termination of service, i.e. that he has over 40 years of insurance experience and is over 55 years of age. That is, that on September 4 of this year, he had 41 years, one month and ten days of insurance experience, over 56 years of age, and that he has been in the service of the Croatian Civil War since July 21, 1990.
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