President Jakov Milatović said that decision makers in Montenegro must create a safe environment in which media employees will perform their work without pressure and inform citizens in a timely manner.
The Office for Public Relations of the President of Montenegro announced that at the working breakfast in Villa Gorica, which was organized to meet the World Press Freedom Day, Milatović's journalists learned that 16 attacks on journalists were recorded in the past year, and nine this year.
"Also new when it comes to attacks on employees in the media is that, in the last period, journalists were targeted by state and local officials," the announcement reads.
"In addition to all the current attacks on employees in the media, it is also devastating that 20 years after the murder of journalist Duško Jovanović, we do not have anyone responsible for that crime," Milatović pointed out.
The press release states that during the conversation it was established that the economic status of media employees has improved over the past two years, but that despite this, many are forced to do additional jobs in addition to journalism, in order to have a normal existence, so the interlocutors agree that the general increasing wages in the media is the priority of all priorities.
"During the conversation, it was pointed out that the adoption of a set of media laws will improve the situation in the media sector. The meeting concluded that in the coming period, it is necessary to strengthen professional media and severely sanction those who are not registered, spread misinformation and polarize society," the statement concludes. .
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