Member of the Socialist People's Party (SNP) and president of the Podgorica committee of the SNP, Bogdan Božović, called on the authorities to react as quickly as possible regarding the detention of Montenegrin soldiers in Kosovo.
"The Pristina authorities should release the Montenegrin citizens as soon as possible. Determining detention for 30 days because of the sticker on the license plates is a gross violation of their basic human rights. The Montenegrin authorities must not be passive in this case, but must react decisively and stop for the protection of its citizens who are being treated inhumanely," said Božović.
He said that "the repressive action of the Pristina authorities" which "has become almost a daily practice" is not surprising, considering "the way they treat the Serbs living in the north of Kosovo and Metohija".
"What is worrisome and completely unacceptable is the passive attitude of the international community, which in this and in many previous cases failed to react adequately to such and similar events," Božović said.
The Kosovo police announced on November 24 that, during an Orthodox celebration in the Visoki Dečani monastery, they arrested three people on whose vehicle they found the inscription "Kosovo is Serbia". The vehicle, as they said, had Montenegrin license plates and was parked in the parking lot near the monastery.
Defense Minister Dragan Krapović announced three days later that two of the three arrested persons were members of the Army of Montenegro.
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