Aleksandar Vulin (Beta/Ministry of Defence/Darimir Banda)
Serbian Defense Minister Aleksandar Vulin called on Feb. 11 on the Montenegrin authorities to protect Serbs in Montenegro but added that Serbia "will protect and defends Serbs wherever they are and whatever is happening to them."
In Rovca near Kolasin where he attend a memorial service for FR Yugoslav minister of defense Pavle Bulatovic, who was killed two decades ago, Vulin said that every attack on the Serbian Orthodox Church or any part of it and its property, represented an attack on all Serbs "wherever they live."
He said that Serbia wanted the entire Balkans and Montenegro to be safe, stable and peaceful, but added that "there can be no happiness for anyone, if the Serbs in Montenegro or any other state, wherever they may be, do not live in peace and are not respected and protected."
Vulin previously voiced his regret over a decision by Podgorica to not allow a Serbian military delegation to enter the country in uniforms, saying that apparently "everything that is Serbian, always poses a problem."
Montenegrin Foreign Minister Srdjan Darmanovic confirmed that the Montenegrin authorities had allowed a delegation from Serbia to visit Montenegro providing that it was not a state delegation and without military uniforms. He recalled that the Ministry of Culture regulates how military uniforms are used and that they were only allowed during visits to memorials of state importance.
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