Writes: Dusko JOVANOVIC, a representative in the Parliament of the Republic of Montenegro (24th September 2000. “DAN”)

After three years Yugoslav Army got the “space” of 120 minutes on the first channel of the Television Montenegro.
The Yugoslav Army chief of staff, general Pavkovic, the commandant of the Second Army general Obradovic, admiral Zec and general Smiljanic were trying for four hours to explain in military way to “uneducated” and “clumsy” journalist the things which should be clear to all who served military obligation or who passed military training, not to mention those who passed the exam Defense and security or Constitutional Law.
A journalist – analyst
The journalist started his show very self confidentially, offensively, as a man at home, but obviously without real predispositions to begin more professional polemics.
Obviously his aim was to try, by short commentaries and frequent interruptions, to come to the extorted and rigged answers which would be then “repeated all the time” by the “independent” media companies.
So, at the beginning of the show he pushed the conversation about the constitutional issues, as if he were talking with Mijat Sukovic, and not the Yugoslav Army generals.
Mr. Journalist couldn’t realize that the generals “didn’t understand the historic necessity of the vertical official Montenegro” not to respect the constitutional system of Yugoslavia.
The journalist won’t to understand that produced “majority” of the Montenegrin citizens on the presidential elections is not enough to break Yugoslavia and to stop all its constitutional competences and especially not Yugoslav Army. The journalist wonders, by the way he is a bachelor of Law studies, how Yugoslav Army cannot “understand” the democratic necessity of Montenegro not to carry out the decisions of the Constitutional court of Yugoslavia.
During the show, on some issues, the journalist “transforms himself” into the councilor- layer of NATO alliance and America. He sorrows their troops, whips over the agreement in Rambuillet and cries because there aren’t their soldiers on the streets of Podgorica and who is guilty, of course, Slobodan Milosevic and Yugoslav Army.
A journalist – border guard
The journalist, a bachelor of Law studies doesn’t know what a border is, what a border crossing is and that it is forbidden to cross a border wherever you like, and that you can do that only over the cross border.
It is completely clear and understanding the logic which he uses, and which represents the one that the Montenegrin authorities use through this journalist. The Army is “annoying” when you don’t know when and where it will appear and act.
In these cases the smugglers convoys, which are blessed by state authorities, suffer on land, lake or sea.
If they succeeded to “keep” the Army exclusively in barracks and to “tie” them for the ramps in that case it wouldn’t be an obstacle and the “haunt” on it will stop.
A journalist – “liberal”
Even the guests from the studio, as well as those who watched the show in their homes, were shocked when the journalist said that an solder reservist from Tivat had said for the area which he had defended in Montenegro that that had been “Serbian Land”.
It is not defined in the rules of Yugoslav army how and in what way the solders reservists declare their national feelings.
In that way there are not predicted eventual punishments for the “felons” by this “sensitive national issue” so the general left the journalist without the precise answer to this big political dilemma.
A journalist and democratic majority
The journalist “logically” concludes that it would be more economically for the Yugoslav Army to receive the payments in DEM in Montenegro and the Government of Montenegro would be included.
The journalist offers the same system which was offered to the Government of Montenegro by the foreign mentors and commanders, and which also has been accepted.
First DEM, than carrots and at the end sticks.
Although, all this is unconstitutional it doesn’t bother the journalist, a bachelor of Law studies. The aim justifies the mean.
The journalist suggests paying the Yugoslav Army directly from the “international great help”, by those who had bombed us. There is a question if the journalist was politically serious enough to make these questions and dilemmas, and to offer the solutions, if he hadn’t made the necessary consultations before the show.
A journalist and the seventh battalion
The generals stated that the political moment at the reception of candidates into the Seventh battalion hadn’t existed, and wouldn’t exist in the future. In that way the members and the sympathizers of all parties and movements in Montenegro have an opportunity to experience the most famous military formation.
The big question is how the journalist would pass on the entrance examination for the Seventh battalion, especially on the question of defending the country in the case when the enemy is stronger.
Actually, in that case the journalist suggests capitulation, surrender and serving to the stronger and that means that he wouldn’t definitely pass the entrance examination for the Seventh battalion.
The conclusion:
The guests were too professional, responsible and serious for the tendentious, unprepared, confused and sometimes frivolous journalist.