Commenting on the information that Mohamed Alabar, an investor from the United Arab Emirates, is considering potentially building in Buljarica, while appearing on TV Vijesti's Boje jutra, the President of the Budva Municipal Assembly, Petar Odžić, said that there had been no discussions with Alabar.
"Given that he did not talk to the Mayor and the President of the Municipal Assembly, I am not sure that he is going the right way, especially if we also have the fact that the President of the Assembly is one of the larger land owners in Buljarica, then he is certainly not going the right way. If there is any interest, and the local government does not know about it, then that is a problem and I am just afraid that we will end up in a situation where another large project is compromised like the one in Ulcinj was compromised. We have seen that the Government and Prime Minister Spajić with Alabara have taken a completely wrong approach to such a large project and it has been greatly compromised for now. I can say, from the perspective of local government, I think that no local government is against investors, large investments, however, this process must be absolutely transparent, which it has not been so far. I am sure that the agreement that was adopted in the Parliament of Montenegro in the framework in which it was adopted cannot be implemented in almost any local government," said Odžić.
Odžić emphasizes that the local government in Budva will strive to protect the interests of the local population.
"In order to implement such a large project, you have about a million and a half square meters of private land that must be implemented within that project because it represents the central part of the overall core and without that land, absolutely no project can be done. If you think that you can do it without paying the local population, without entering into some arrangement with the local population, whether through a percentage of construction, whether through the payment of land, that you can enter into such a large project, saying at this event yesterday that the local population should invest. So if they have five euros, they should invest five euros, ten euros, ten euros. I think that is a frivolous approach and that when such a large and serious project is being done with mega facilities and a large number of housing units and hotel units, I think that every normal investor must first purchase the land. I will just tell you that only in Buljarica, just like in Ulcinj, there are families that have been in that area for centuries. You have houses that are older, even from the period before the 79 earthquake, and I think that these people should be adequately included in the decision-making process," emphasized Odžić.
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