Ulcinj ecologist and civil activist Dzelal Hodzic he welcomed the initiative of the President of the Municipality Omer Bajraktari, submitted to the Constitutional Court, for the evaluation of the constitutionality of the Law on Maritime Property and the Decision on Adopting a Spatial Plan of Special Purpose for the Coastal Area of Montenegro, but claims that this is not enough.
"I welcome the fact that after thirty or more years, someone finally remembered to inform the citizens of Ulcinj and the Montenegrin public about the actions and inactions of the Public Enterprise for the Management of Marine Assets in the territory of our municipality. Addressing the President of the Municipality to the Constitutional Court with a proposal on the evaluation of the constitutionality of the law has more weight than if it had been done by one of us citizens or the civil sector. But that is not enough," said Hodžić to "Vijesta".
He believes that an expert commission with foreign experts and scientific institutions should first be formed, which would assess the condition of the localities in the municipality over which the Public Authority has authority, starting from Kruč and Valdanos, through Velika skela and Borova šuma, to Port Milena, Velika plaža, Bojana and Ada.
"According to our assessment, due to inaction and ignorance, damage was caused to those locations, which is measured not by tens of millions of euros, but perhaps by a whole hundred. Instead of a partner in solving accumulated problems, as planned by law, the citizens of Ulcinj got a colonizer in the form of JP".
Hodžić claims that political subjects from Ulcinj, who have been engaged in the bodies of that company with headquarters in Budva, are partly responsible for such a relationship between JP and the southernmost municipality.
"It's a continuation of the colonizing relationship, because we all know very well that Budva was also developed with money from Ulcinj. Before the earthquake, Ulcinj was more developed than Budva, and today it is the poorest municipality on the coast. Montenegroturist sucked money from Ulcinj into Budva, so today it is called the capital of tourism, although unlike us, it has neither a lake, nor a river, nor an island, nor a pine forest, nor sulfur springs, nor 16 kilometers of sandy beaches..." .
Hodžić also reminded that the business premises in the center of Budva, worth millions of euros, which belonged to Ulcinj after the division of the assets of Montenegroturista, remained at the disposal of the Budva authorities.
"Not a single party or municipal, let alone state, government in the last 30 years has reacted to that scandalous case. After all, Budva built business premises and apartments from a couple from Ulcinj. All of that should be on the agenda. Ulcinj, like yesterday, is still a neglected city today, and that must change."
Hodžić called on the local government for more concrete cooperation in order for Ulcinj to have the status it deserves.
The Municipality of Ulcinj has recently submitted to the Constitutional Court a proposal for the constitutionality assessment of Article Three Paragraph One of the Law on Marine Resources and Articles 1,2,3,5,6, 7, XNUMX, XNUMX, XNUMX and XNUMX of the Decision on Adopting a Special Purpose Spatial Plan for the Coastal Area of Montenegro.
On that occasion, Bajraktari said "that for decades we in Ulcinj have been talking about injustice, that is, the discrimination to which we as a municipality and citizens of Ulcinj have been exposed since the formation of the Public Enterprise for the Management of the Sea Property and the determination of the line of the sea property".
He reminded that regardless of these facts, there was no fundamental action in Ulcinj to try to legally change the situation, except for some sporadic protests and gatherings of citizens and non-governmental organizations.
He assessed that the injustice and damage that was done and is being done, is measured not only in tens of millions of euros, but above all in the fact that the local self-government cannot plan and direct development on its own.
He said that Ulcinj's most valuable space was taken systematically and planned, by the decisions of the then governments of Montenegro and the adoption of a series of by-laws.
He reminded that the line of marine property in Ulcinj covers the area that is two kilometers away from the sea, although the law states that it can reach a maximum of six meters from the biggest wave during the biggest storm.
He stated that as much as 57 percent of the territory of marine property is located in Ulcinj, and in all other municipalities, Bar, Budva, Kotor, Tivat and Herceg Novi, only 43 percent. This, as he said, means that 3.318,4 hectares, or 3,3 million square meters, or 13 percent of the territory of the municipality, are under the maritime domain in Ulcinj.
This, he added, is 10 times more than in Bar, where 1,3 percent of the territory of that neighboring municipality is covered by marine resources.
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