The Montenegrin National Commission for UNESCO received a positive opinion from UNESCO on the business plan of the company Luka Kotor ad for the next 12 years, and whose alleged non-compliance with the organization's requirements was the formal reason for the SDP to overthrow the local government of the opposition parties in Kotor last spring. .
With this, the World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization of the United Nations (UNESCO) completely canceled the argument that the SDP, then led by Ranko Krivokapić, used last year in the confrontation with the local administration of Kotor, headed by Vladimir Jokić (Democrats).
In the letter that the Secretary General of the Montenegrin Commission for UNESCO, Milica Nikolić, delivered yesterday to the Executive Director of the Port of Kotor, Branko Kovačević, it is stated that "they have just received a positive opinion from UNESCO in relation to this document (Business plan - prim.aut.)".
"In the Conclusions of the opinion, it is said that the submitted document is consistent with the information presented to the Reactive Monitoring Mission in 2018 and that it provides more information about the proposed infrastructure works that do not pose a threat to the exceptional universal values (of the Protected Area of the Natural and Cultural Heritage of Kotor - prim.aut .)" - reads the letter from Nikolić, who conveyed to Kovačević the official views of UNESCO regarding the Business Plan of the Port, which he submitted to that organization on March 26 last year.
The letter also states that UNESCO drew attention to the need for the state to consider the strategic management of cruise tourism in the Bay of Boka Kotorska, but this is out of scope and does not apply to the Business Plan of the Port of Kotor.
By the way, the key part of that business plan is the construction of a pylon for mooring cruisers in the sea about 100 meters from the end of the current operational coast on Luža and the installation of mooring buoys for cruisers in the aquarium in front of Dobrota, which together will cost around 3 million euros. The pylon and mooring buoys, for which the technical design is complete, will significantly increase the level of safety of ships staying in Kotor, especially in adverse weather conditions, and enable the Port to receive up to two cruise ships of 250-300 meters in capacity at the same time. It will also contribute to the reduction of air pollution from exhaust gases from ship propulsion systems, which, unlike the current situation when large cruise ships in Kotor mostly remain at anchor with the so-called dynamic position maintenance by the operation of machines, bow and stern thrusters, will not be used so long and intensively during the ship's stay in port.
Mayor Jokić, as the representative of the majority owner of the port - the Municipality of Kotor, at the shareholders' meeting last year voted for the adoption of the disputed business plan and the acceptance of the priority concession for the management of the port and the water area under the walls of the Old Town, which the current management of the port of Kotor AD managed to obtain from the Government of Montenegro Above. The previous administration of the Port of Kotor, led by the SDP, failed to do so, but the party of Ranko Krivokapić expressed reservations about the achievement of the local administration led by Jokić and the Board of Directors of the Port headed by Dr. Branko Ivanović (then in the SNP), and caused a crisis in the local authorities.
The SDP publicly stated at the time that this arrangement was against everything that Kotor holds on the UNESCO list and that "no one has ever started to bury the sea in front of Kotor" like Jokić and the director of the Administrative Sector of the Port of Kotor Snežana Jonica, and that they are in the process in obtaining the concession for the Port showed "insolence, ignorance and mismanagement of the assets entrusted to them by the city of Kotor."
"This is a job for the prosecutor - abuse of office with the threat of destruction of non-renewable natural assets under the protection of UNESCO and property of the municipal company." - announced on April 2 last year OO SDP Kotor, noting that their partners in the then coalition government in Kotor "led by their narrow-minded and personal interests are trying to devastate the most important economic resource of the city and to devastate the most beautiful bay and cradle of the cultural life of Montenegro for a lifetime."
As Jokič and the management of Luka did not give up on concluding the concession, the SDP soon overthrew the local government when SDP councilor Dr. Bruna Lončarević, on April 24 of last year, openly switched to the old opposition and together with her colleagues from DPS, SD, HGI and LP voted for the removal of the mayor. Jokic. Because of this, the SDP excluded Lončarevićka from the party, and Ranko Krivokapič retired from the position of president of that party after 17 years. Although the power in Kotor was practically handed over to the DPS and its partners, the SDP, however, has not completely withdrawn from it to this day, because its personnel still perform the functions of the director of the Kotor Waterworks, i.e. the deputy executive director of the Port, and what the SDP got in to his previous coalition with the Democrats, DF, URA and SNP.
SDP returned to the Municipal Assembly to demand the dismissal of the management of the Port, which received the blessing of UNESCO
The SDP, which after the dismissal of Jokić, officially boycotted the work of the SO Kotor, which is controlled by the new majority led by the DPS, suddenly returned to the local parliament two days ago.
Mayor Željko Aprcović (DPS) especially welcomed the return of Tena Božović (who is also the deputy executive director of Luka) and Goran Brguljan to the bench councilors after ten months of absence.
Participating in the debate, Božović asked the president of the SO Jov Suđić (DPS) to explain why he did not include the item on the agenda of the election and appointment in the agenda of the meeting, because, as she said, it is time to authorize the representative of the Municipality of Kotor as the majority owner of shares in AD Port of Kotor, for participation and decision-making at the upcoming session of the Shareholders' Assembly of that company, scheduled for March 16.
At that meeting, the new composition of the Board of Directors of the Port should be chosen, in which the current cast led by DPS will replace the cadres brought in by the previous government, in which SDP also participated.
Božović requested that a representative of the Municipality be immediately appointed for the Shareholders' Assembly (who can vote all the decisions himself because the Municipality owns the majority of the company's shares), so that the Port can get a new management.
"Given that the previous mayor, Vladimir Jokić, usurped the powers of the Assembly and violated the Law on Local
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