Montenegrin opposition stages rallies against Kosovo recognition
Montenegrin opposition parties are staging rallies against the recognition of Kosovo’s unilateral independence by the Montenegro government last week
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Monday, October 13, 2008
Several spontaneous gatherings occurred during the weekeend, but a large, organized rally is planned for Monday evening in the capital Podgorica.
The opposition says it will never recognize the government's move and will fight for its reversal.
"This will be an opportunity for the rallying of all those who are concerned about the future of Montenegro and who will not allow themselves to be remembered as the generation that must be ashamed because their govenment adopted the decision to recognize Kosovo," the leader of the Socialist People's Party, Srdjan Milic, said.
Milic stressed that the rally will be neither anti-Albanian nor pro-Serbian, but "a rally for the future of our children, for an attempt to remain human and to preserve what has been the most powerful weapon of Montenegro throughout the centuries - honour."
According to Milic, the opposition will demand from the government to annul the decision on the recognition of Kosovo, or to enable a fair and democratic declaration of opinion by the citizens - as more than 80 percent of them do not support such a decision, or to call early parliamentary elections.
