Analyst: Vucic’s Long-Term Goal Is Sort of Serbia-Montenegro Union | Beta Briefing

Analyst: Vucic’s Long-Term Goal Is Sort of Serbia-Montenegro Union

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Archive / News | 16.02.21 | access_time 12:02

Aleksandar Vucic(BETAPHOTO/MILOS MISKOV/MO)

U.S. analyst Janusz Bugajski had said that in the past few years, there had been the trend of undermining the Montenegrin identity, while Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic had been trying through the church, media and the Democratic Front to make a junior partner out of Montenegro, Voice of America (VoA) reported on Feb. 15.

“I surely think that there is a danger, if Montenegro is too much pushed toward Serbia, and I believe that Vucic has a plan to create some sort of a union between Serbia and Montenegro, it could trigger harsh reactions with the Montenegrins who have so far been relatively passive regarding the protests in relation to the church and similar events,” Bugajski told VoA.

According to him, there exists a strategy, not in the way conducted by Slobodan Milosevic through the war, ethnic persecution and killings, but through a political process aiming to create a greater Serbian state, for example, a Serbia with satellites, including Republika Srpska, and parts of Kosovo and Montenegro.

“Maybe, after the model of the union of Russia and Belarus, which was even opposed by Belarus, but it is in a far weaker position. Then, the idea is to turn Montenegro into sort of a junior partner,” the expert said, adding that the church would back a tighter union of the two countries, some sort of a greater brotherhood of the Serbs in the Balkans.

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