Djukanovic: Milosevic to Blame for Kosovo

Milosevic and Tudjman had the crucial role in the fall of Yugoslavia with their ideas of dissolving BH as a country says Djukanovic.

-- What is happening today in Kosovo is not the responsibility of this generation of politicians of citizens of Serbia. Kosovo is a problem that was created for a long time and for which generations of politicians are accountable. Milosevic wrapped this up, Milo Djukanovic, te mst significant politician of Montenegro in the past 15 years, told Dnevni avaz.

From genocide to genocide 

Djukanovic stressed that the situation in Kosovo had been worsening for years and had culminated in 1999 when the Belgrade regime “tried to exercise genocide in Kosovo”.

-- Then followed the intervention by NATO and Resolution 1244, which, to anybody who wants to read it precisely, defined the frameworks of the future status of Kosovo – he said.

Djukanovic added that it was irrefutable that former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and former Croatian President Franjo Tudjman had had a crucial role in the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia and the crimes that followed. They “formed the idea of the dissolution of Bosnia-Herzegovina as a state”. But, he believes that other political protagonists, including himself, should not be spared of responsibility.

-- All of us who at the time had state offices at the highest level did not show a sufficient degree of wisdom to preserve a modified form of community or, at least, to separate in a peaceful and civilised manner, which would spare us of war horrors.

I will go to Srebrenica personally 

Commenting on Bosnia’s law suit against Serbia and Montenegro for genocide and the possible consequences of the law suit for Montenegro, Djukanovic believes that Montenegro should not be held accountable since Serbia was the successor of Serbia and Montenegro (SCG). On the other hand, moral and political responsibility is not in question. This is why a Montenegrin government delegation visited Srebrenica last year.

-- By the will of our leadership, through Foreign Minister Miodrag Vlahovic, we were present in Srebrenica to express the attitude of our state policy towards the tragedy of Srebrenica. I am sure that a lot of time and many expressions of good will from all sides are necessary to restore confidence and I think that we all bear great responsibility towards Bosnia – Djukanovic said.

The former Montenegrin president, todaypresident of the largest party, DPS, and future businessman, announced he would visit Srebrenica personally.

-- Of course I will visit Bosnia and Srebrenica. This is a tragic warning for all of us in the region that something like that should never happen again anywhere.