Today, a request from 68 non-governmental organizations from Montenegro was submitted to the Government of Montenegro requesting the inclusion of Milan Sekulović, a representative of the Civic Initiative Save Sinjajevina, in the working team to review the decision on the military training ground in Sinjajevina, and the request was addressed to Prime Minister Dritan Abazović.
As stated in the GI Save Sinjajevina announcement, the Government of Montenegro formed a working group in October, which by the end of the year should propose the next steps for the implementation of the Government's Conclusions of September 12, 2019, when 74.590.381 square meters of Sinjajevina were ceded for use by the Ministry of Defense for the purposes of forming a training and shooting range of the Army, or to propose a new adequate solution for the range in accordance with the criteria.
"The Government of Montenegro did not include representatives of the civil sector in the working group, even though the Citizens' Initiative Save Sinjajevina officially asked to be part of the working team," they emphasize in the announcement.
From that GI, they stated that they are gathering representatives of the local livestock communities of Sinjajevina, but also all citizens who care about ecological Montenegro and since 2018 oppose the establishment of a military training ground in Sinjajevina.
"A study by the Agency for Nature and Environmental Protection showed that Sinjajevina, due to its exceptional biodiversity, and as the largest pasture in the Balkans and the second largest in Europe, should be declared a regional nature park. Accordingly, we organized several protests to defend Sinjajevina, but also events with the aim of popularizing that mountain as a tourist destination. Also, in addition to the imposing biodiversity, Sinjajevina, as a livestock mountain, can be a large producer of organic, healthy food. An earlier analysis by Agrokombinat July 13 showed that in just four months Sinjajevina can produce over 1.000 tons of cheese, 750 tons of meat, 36 tons of wool, 33 tons of medicinal plants and 4.000 tons of hay. Therefore, we, the signatories of the request to Abazović, demand from the Government of Montenegro that the working team that will deal with the review of the decision on the military training ground on Sinjajevina include a representative of the Citizens' Initiative Let's save Sinjajevina, Milan Sekulović," they emphasize in the announcement.
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