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Montenegrin Minister of Justice Andrej Milovic said on Dec. 28 that, despite demands, his country would not resort to reciprocity toward Serbia for its failure to extradite former Democratic Party of Socialists official Svetozar Marovic, a former president of the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro, who was sentenced by a court in 2016 for milllions in fraud in Budva.
"The previous government with its actions caused stagnation on the road to the EU, which this cabinet has been correcting since it started, and reciprocity in that sense would be detrimental to our European integration," Milovic said in a Dec. 28 interview with the Vreme weekly.
He recalled that in April last year he said that reciprocal measures against Serbia over the Marovic case were considered so that Montenegro would not extradite persons wanted by Serbia.
"However, we will not bring up the question of reciprocity in our relations with Serbia, because - in addition to the aforementioned, as well as the fact that international legal cooperation in criminal matters in all other cases has been truly great - our goal is the best possible relations between the two countries, which has not been the case for too long," Milovic stressed.
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