Writes: Dusko JOVANOVIC, a representative in the Parliament of the Republic of Montenegro (27th August 2000. “DAN”)

Ex workers and pensioners and stock holders of the Niksic brewery “Trebjesa” are asking from Filip Vujanovic to see the purchase contract.
The same contract was asked from the Government by the SNP representatives, who are the members of the Commission for following and control the privatization procedure. Anyway, the purchase contract of the brewery “Trebjesa” is not so important anymore, what is important are the obligations of the parties in contract and fulfilling of these obligations.
If we can judge according to all Montenegrin privatizations till now, it is almost unlikely that the stock holders of the Niksic Brewery as well as the representatives of the parliament, are able to see the details of this job, which has begun and has been promoted as the job of the decade and which is finishing these days through the Niksic’s sewage.
The General Director of the Brewery Patrick Dierick didn’t learn from the Montenegrins the hundred year’s traditions of the technology of producing beer but he has very soon adopted the technology of the “money laundry” and the illegal taking cash from the Brewery’s bill.
The money was divided to the managers who enjoyed the protectorate of the state authorities, instead to the stock holders.
Ex workers, pensioners and stock holders of the Brewery are the owners of the 30 per cent of the capital of “Trebjesa”s total capital of nine million German marks, so they are the minority owners.
The minority stockholders in Montenegro have the stocks which cannot be sold, stocks which don’t get dividend and stocks by which they cannot realize anything in the company; they cannot even see the purchase Contract. You have asked for it you have got it.
The Municipal Board of DPS Budva supports the attitudes of the head of “Budvanska Rivijera” which is opposite of the decision which made the Montenegrin Government regarding the selling six Montenegrin hotels to the French company “Accor”.
The representative of the Municipal Board Budva and of Dordije Pribilovic is Svetozar Marovic and the representative of the Privatization Council and Government is Filip Vujanovic, both vice presidents of DPS.
In this conflict the judge will be Milo Djukanovic, although there is nothing to be judged, because Filip doesn’t do anything without his boss’ approval. This time Sveto will be denied.
The great public scandal together with this “affair” was the session of the Municipal Board of SNP Niksic. It was the news which was published on the front pages of the regime’s journals.
Allegedly, SNP Niksic has been divided regarding the question of the sovereignty of Montenegro and the constitutional changes in FRY. There was no one word about that how in Budva the vice presidents are making their fortune. The truth is they don’t do that for the sovereignty of “horizontal” Montenegro, or for FRY, but for the influence on the dividing the big piece of the Montenegrin privatization cake, which they haven’t inherit from their grandfathers but from the Montenegrin people, before and now. That is an honest reason for the conflicts in DPS.
The courage of Djordije Pribilovic wonders, who says:
“There are problems in the centralization of the Republic, where the government is made of few people”.
Absolutely correct!
But it is also true that Mr. Pribilovic voted and he still votes for that government unless something has been changed in meantime.
The Assembly of the Parliament will be soon and that is the place and the time for checking the information.
The assistant of the Minister of Tourism is engaged for “saving” the contract with “Accor” and he says that certain hotels which are “lended” to ‘Accor’ will not be privatized (sold) at all. After the official Montenegrin statement (with the scientific support of Veselin Vukotic) to privatize everything (except the police), that means Electric Power Company, Post Office, Railways, Port of Bar, “Vranac”, “Procordem” and “Kruna”, “Point” and “Lovcen”, and now we hear the official statement from the government “commissioner” that some hotels will stay in the state’s ownership.
It is all about to provide few rooms for free “swimming” to the Government of Montenegro and its heads.
Unless they “calm down” Sveto and Djoko will very soon have to pay for “swimming” and “sunbathing” on “their’ beaches in “their” Budva (all that by German marks).
After that, another “presentation” of the assistant of the Minister of Tourism Dragan Ivancevic followed. Actually, he accuses Socialist People’s Party of Montenegro for the fiasco of this and the following Montenegrin tourist season.
As we know that in the Montenegrin Government, which is responsible for interior policy, not even one decision can be brought without SNP that statement is completely clear.
As Mr. Ivancevic warned beforehand to consequences, it can be expected that SNP undertakes activities to prevent the accusations and omens of the assistant of the Minister for Tourism in the Government of Montenegro to come true.
It would be good for the beginning that each person who votes for SNP (around 150.000) makes promise to bring one tourist to the Montenegrin coast or mountains. Thus, it is necessary to respect certain rules: first: we don’t count the tourists from Serbia, because they pay with dinars and they can make political damage, especially if they are the citizens of Montenegro;
Second: the registration of SNP tourists will be done only on the counters of Dragan Ivancevic to make correct informing of the Ministry of Tourism and of him personally;
Third: the tourists cannot leave Montenegro without Mr. Ivancevic’s approval and after his “success of season” assessment;
Fourth: before leaving it is necessary that every tourist sign an appreciation letter to the Government of Montenegro for the democratic conditions for resting and recreation.
If all this procedure is too complicated for Mr. Ivancevic he can only “put the finger on his forehead” and offer the alternative solutions. The complete “official” Montenegro has gone into alternative anyway.
With the great “surprise” the regime’s journals in Montenegro realize that the strangers have problems to leave Yugoslavia because they don’t have visa for entering the country. And imagine, they came from their “beautiful country” to our “beautiful country” and the only documentation they have are their “beautiful eyes”.
In the Montenegrin “regime” style it is said that “Serbian customs services harass tourists”.
The first thing is that there aren’t Serbian customs services. There are customs services of Federative Republic of Yugoslavia on the border crossings in Serbia. This customs services work according to the Constitution and law of FRY.
Than the foreigners who need the visa when they are on the territory of FRY if they are in FRY without the same they are not the tourists they are the foreigners who are breaking the Yugoslav law which regulates the stay of foreigners.
The big question is what would happen to a citizen of FRY (even if Montenegro is written over his forehead) if he were without visa in any European country or even worse if he were in America.
The truth is entering these countries without visa can only be illegal. It would be very difficult even to presume the situation where in one part of a country you were invited and given the legal guarantees (of course completely unconstitutional) and in another part of the same country you were arrested.
That only speaks of the frivolity of the “Montenegro sovereignty” where foreigners suffer because of the unconstitutional and illegal conduct of the “official” Montenegro.
According to the international law all persons who as foreigners were confused by the behavior of the Montenegrin “border workers” in Debeli Brijeg have a right for indemnification.
The only thing which is not clear is the readiness of Vukasin Maras to begin the war in Montenegro for a possibility of crossing the border across Debeli Brijeg motivated by needs of Montenegrin tourism even payng the price for the problems which that tourists later have, or it is something different and more dangerous.
The electoral anti-campaign in Montenegro has begun. In the regime’s journals you can read the statements which made Milo and those which made Misko and then again Milo Djukanovic and then Misko and sometimes they are together. (“Pobjeda” 22nd August 2000.)
Very successfully they supplement each other and they absolutely agree in everything. There is no Montenegro without them and their government; the anti-Montenegrins are all those who do not follow their “Montenegrism”, the enemies are all those who are not their friends, the enemies are all those who don’t love Montenegro in their way, all people in Montenegro are blind who don’t watch by their eyes.
It is obvious but incomprehensible for them that the citizens of Montenegro don’t recognize so called Montenegrin-regime “dignity” which is “kneeling dignity”.
Montenegrin government functions like: “You can kneel everywhere but at home you can boast”.
- kneel in front of the International Community and beg for the financial help;
- kneel in front of Madeline Albright and beg for American “understanding” and “support”;
- Kneel in front of Mesic and beg him to let you begging him.
And after all that, you can stand up and throw out your chests in front of Montenegrins to let them see your dignity, your and your country’s for which sake you have done all that.
What Milo Djukanovic and his associates cannot see or what they don’t want to see is the following fact:
The Montenegrin regime is not in quarrel with Belgrade, nor with his own people and that is the biggest problem for Milo Djukanovic and his councilor. Belgrade, or Serbian opposition or SNP or other opposition parties in Montenegro have nothing to do with it.
Montenegro has existed even before Milo Djukanovic and his councilor and it will exist longer then two of them or longer then their “pro-European dignity” or their personal interests.
Milo Djukanovic sends words to the Montenegrin citizens to find something smarter to do on the 24th September then it is voting, as if Montenegrins didn’t know what and when to do their obligations, or that these people have had much smarter work to do for three years than to listen to him or to his councilor. Every disaster comes and goes away so will this one too.
According to the reports of the regime’s journals in Montenegro the Montenegrin police have cut the chain of the illegal trafficking of Chinese people in Italy.
That is their job anyway. It is good when the job is well done, no matter who has done it, where he works or to which party he belongs.
However it is more than transparent the wish of the journalist and the Montenegrin police to treat this “case” in a special way because the suspected are the members of the Yugoslav Army.
It is completely obvious that there is a wish to use this case in media by raising to a power that it belongs to the Yugoslav Army and in that way to minimize accusations which every day come from abroad regarding the participation of the state administration of Montenegro and specifically the jobs of Ministry of Interior Affairs into the organized criminal.
All well meaning public even the author of this text agree with the fact that all criminal events should be prevented at the beginning and specially the cases of the abuse of power for gaining personal benefits or privileges.
However, it has to be emphasized that there is big difference between the social dangers of the criminal works which are done in organization or direct participation of the state authorities of the Republic of Montenegro, or it is all about the individual responsibilities.
The Montenegrin public would appreciate very much if Ministry of Interior Affairs of Montenegro solves “the incident” from the border towards Herzegovina when in shooting from the fire weapons were hurt few persons. It was all about a million worth drug smuggling.
The journalists from the regime journals and state authorities of the Republic of Montenegro have done everything to cover up this “case” and to forget it as soon as possible.
It is completely natural when it is known that the vehicles in the criminal act were in the ownership of the state authorities of the Republic of Montenegro.
Montenegrin public would also be very grateful when the members of the state authorities who make logistic support to the international smugglers on the Montenegrin coast and on the Skadar Lake, were called for responsibility.
However it is clear that this is impossible because there is a sign equals between the state and the criminal in Montenegro, the state and the corruption and unfortunately between the state and the government.

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