The struggle of the Serbian people in Montenegro to make the Serbian language the official language is legitimate, said Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, assessing that the reaction of the authorities in Podgorica could be similar to that during the rule of Milo Đukanović.
He said that the Serbian people in Montenegro will always have Serbia's support in the fight to protect their language.
Responding to a question from a journalist in Abu Dhabi why it is a problem for Podgorica to accept Serbian as an official language, Vučić said that it is "their business and let them decide about it."
"You have two schools of thought here, one that considers it a real and essential goal and the other that formally advocates for it, and will always be in the government, even if they do nothing. Regardless, it is their business and they should decide on it, and the Serbian people who want the protection of their language and who want the Serbian language to be the official language, which is more dominant in Montenegro, will always have the support of Serbia," Vučić said, Tanjug reports.
He said that he had seen a statement by the leader of the Democratic People's Party, Milan Knežević, who said that he wanted the Serbian language, script, and tricolor to be the main topics of discussion for the parliamentary majority.
"We will see what the response of the authorities in Montenegro will be. I assume the same as the previous authorities of Milo Đukanović, only they will play it off, we are for, we are against, but we do not have the majority," said Vučić.
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