The session of the Council for Defense and Security, which was supposed to be held this week, will continue in the second week of December, said the President of the State Jakov Milatović in Villa Gorica after the annual awards ceremony of the Chamber of Commerce.
The work of the Council was paused on October 11, and the question of the fate of the Chief of the General Staff, General Zoran Lazarevic, remained unresolved...
"That the session will continue in the week that starts on December 9, that is the agreement of all three cabinets... At the last session, I also called for the ball to be dropped, for us to behave responsibly and seriously towards the professionalism of the Army of Montenegro." .
Milatović believes that the situation in the security sector is not good...
"You see that the clashes between the clans that have returned to the streets of Montenegro are not good. The search for Alija Balijagić was unsuccessful for almost a month... The citizens of Montenegro, including me, expect much more from the security sector, less PR by the people who lead the security sector, with much more work, dedication and investment in the security sector"
The President of Montenegro pointed to an alarming fact - that for the first time since the restoration of independence, excluding the pandemic year, we have recorded a decrease in income from tourism compared to last year.
And warned that raising VAT and excise duty were wrong decisions...
"Tourism is a key sector of the Montenegrin economy, instead of the decision-makers rolling up their sleeves and taking this situation seriously, they are additionally imposing charges on a sector that is key to economic activity, we are all witnesses that the surrounding countries are making great strides forward, I am thinking of Albania, it seems to me that Montenegro is losing that race... An appeal that economic policy is no longer conducted in a "puff puff" way, but to really get serious, this is not a short-term game and some political survival"
And who will survive the post-election games in Podgorica is not yet known, almost two months after the election. The president of the state and the holder of the electoral list, said that the constituent session of the Podgorica parliament will be held next week...
"The program principles, which must finally be put in focus so that the citizens feel the improvement of the quality of their everyday life... There are accumulated local problems, which concern communal infrastructure, traffic congestion, urbanism... The citizens have had their say, I think that the citizens now they expect these things to really be at a much better level."
Milatović said from Villa Gorica that the citizens of Podgorica expect the way of governance to change and that there will be no partyocracy in the management of the Main, but also all other cities in Montenegro...
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