Writes: Dusko JOVANOVIC, a representative in the Parliament of the Republic of Montenegro (29th October 2000. “DAN”)

Until just a month ago, it was impossible to imagine that a part of the government accuse another part of the same government for a conscious disaster.
A general director of the Ironworks “Niksic” Miodrag Pejovic, accused the Minister of Trade in the Government of Montenegro for making disaster to this factory by approving the import of the steal nets to Montenegro.
These accusations have been directed only towards Belgrade and the Federal government till now.
Just seven days before this statement, Mr. Pejovic in the daily “Vijesti” from the same reasons “attacked” the Federal Government and personally the head people.
Of course, he accented that for all evils which represented obstacles for their company (Ironworks) the Federal Administration was responsible.
In Montenegro everybody had a duty guilty person, even the Ironworks, so the “import misbehaviors” of the Minister of Trade could pass unnoticeably. And they did.
And as long as there were the “political opportunities” for “accusing” the Federal Government, the director of Ironworks did so.
When the occasions changed and the director of Ironworks looked through the Montenegrin yard, he detected that “the minister Ramo Bralic was trying to ruin his company”.
The capacities of Ironworks are that it could fulfill the four year needs of Montenegro for the iron and steel fittings, so these movements of the proved “trade expert” as the minister of Trade is, mean the “strangling” of Ironworks.
Reviving of universal Yugoslav market for Ironworks would mean reviving of its production. As it is not the responsibility of the Montenegrin Minister of Trade the general director of Ironworks and a federal representative Mr. Pejovic has to direct his critics to the man whose policy he has followed in the last three years.
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We can make a question if the intellectuals in Montenegro are registered by the knowledge or by the titles.
If they are that should be published.
If they aren’t then they should be urgently registered and signed in.
Of course it is necessary to define the word intellectual first.
Is it measured according to professionalism, or education, or authority?
Maybe all of that.
Maybe neither.
The newest counting and grouping of the intellectuals make the real ones to escape from this or the similar future registers.
It is so nice to be someone who hasn’t got a degree.
Although, in our “vertical Montenegro” the fact that someone hasn’t got a degree does not mean that he would not be registered as a number one intellectual.
***
The Privatization Council has prepared two sales.
One is the famous Institute in Igalo, and another is Tobacco Company Podgorica.
There shouldn’t be a problem in sale of the control stock package in the Institute “Simo Milosevic” in Igalo.
Panic “rides” again.
He has arrived in Belgrade and “has overtaken” Galenika.
There will be the drugs to pay the Institute.
The Minister of Health in Montenegro, Miomir Mugosa has to be cautious that they don’t give him the drugs which are out of date.
Not because the Montenegrins wouldn’t take them but it is hard to repack that quantity of the drugs in the bags.
And that costs.
There will be a job for the Mayor and for the Minister.
***
After the Tobacco Company will be sold everything in Montenegro will be much clearer economically and politically.
If the foreigner is interested for the purchase, he will make at least two conditions.
First, “to clean” Montenegrin market from the smuggled imported cigarettes.
And second, to provide him the Serbian market under the same conditions and that means the legal state.
However, if the buyer is “our man”, the only condition will be that there aren’t any conditions.
However, the most important is to satisfy the State.
***
In some circumstances the unspoken word can be as big problem as the spoken word.
The author of this story has felt it on his own skin.
Actually, the author of this story missed to read a letter to Montenegrin public during the Montenegrin Parliament session on Tuesday on the 24th October 2000.
Two pages letter was sent to the author from the prison in Spuz, by the general director of HTP “BOKA”, Mr. Milan Tripkovic.
The author assessed that the topic which was on agenda (elections and nominations) was not “close” enough to read the letter completely but just few sentences were cited from it.

The rest of the letter was less attractive for media so it would probably stay out of public and media interests.
However, it seems that that letter was the reason for attacking the author, which occurred late in the evening, on the 25th October.
It can be only imagined what “pains” made it to the people who ordered the attack to engage five or six “men” to jeopardize the life of a Representative in Parliament to get the letter from one prisoner.
Or it was something else?
One thing is sure.
The model how everything was completed points that the police’s screenplay was professionally done.
We will see if the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Montenegro will catch the committers and until than for the author who was the victim the only suspected is the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Montenegro.
***
The peak of the hypocrisy has been represented in the statements of the representatives of the ruling political parties in Montenegro regarding the attack on the author.
So, Dragan Djurovic “has called Ministry of Interior Affairs” to “establish the facts” and pointed out that he had “full confidence in the State Institutions which will solve this case”.
Rifat Rastoder “joined to the requests for the solving this case as urgently as possible”.
Miodrag Ilickovic has asked “this case to be detected”.
Only the representative of the People’s Party was more precise in his statement. He said that Ministry of Interior Affairs “have to do” what was their job, and that the People’s Party “will be absolutely consistent to make the Ministry of Interior Affairs to find the committers”.
Regarding that every professional positions of the Ministry of Interior Affairs are as they are, thanks to the votes of the coalition “For a Better Life” given in the Parliament, then the representatives of the ruling parties don’t have a right to “appeal the Ministry of Interior Affairs ”, “join the requests” or “not to believe” something.
They should and have to give orders to the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Montenegro to reveal and say the names of the attackers in some period of time, and to point out that they would otherwise remove the head of the Ministry of Interior Affairs because they can do that thanks to the majority in the Parliament.
That is the only moral vocabulary which can be accepted and appretiated.
Everything other would be encouraging of the violence.
Everything other is call for the revenge and self organizing.
Everything other is complicity.
And it would be understand like that.

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