"Serbs, don't go where you're not wanted": Brnabic on Montenegro's decision not to open border

"We will continue to act responsibly and seriously towards our citizens and to always tell the truth," says Brnabic

Serbia will not close its border for Montenegrin citizens, as Podgorica has done for Serbian citizens - but it will be closed for Montenegrin mobsters and criminal clans, Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said last night, after Montenegro announced its decision not to reopen its border for Serbian citizens starting June 1.

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According to the prime minister, Serbia will not introduce reciprocal measures, but she pointed out that our citizens should not go where they are not wanted.

She told TV Pink that our citizens could now see that they are unwanted in Montenegro, because, as she pointed out, we have not been lying that people are dying from the flu or pneumonia rather than from coronavirus.

"We will continue to act responsibly and seriously towards our citizens and to always tell the truth," said the prime minister, although, as she added, the real reason for Montenegro's decision to reopen its borders with a number of countries, but not with Serbia is not the coronavirus epidemic and the number of cases.

However, Serbia will not respond with reciprocal measures towards Montenegrin citizens.

"We will not prevent ordinary Montenegrin citizens from visiting Serbia, but we want to prevent even more strongly and even more severely the entry of Montenegrin criminals and mafia clans from Montenegro have been killing and terrorizing our citizens across Serbia for decades," said Brnabic.

She pointed out that we will not be showing mercy in the fight against criminals coming from Montenegro.

"This attitude of the Montenegrin prime minister has sent a clear message to the citizens. I would ask that they stay in our Serbia as long as possible and in large numbers, and that if they have to go somewhere, they should not go where citizens of Serbia are undesirable," the prime minister said.

"This is ridiculous. They deliberately did not put us on the list": Dacic on Montenegro's decision not to open its border with Serbia

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia Ivica Dacic said that "the move of the authorities in Podgorica to close the border for citizens of Serbia is a ridiculous and meaningless act that has its consequences, but ones which are directly and exclusively harmful for citizens of Montenegro."

Commenting on the move announced by the Montenegrin authorities yesterday afternoon, the Serbian foreign minister said that the government of that country "deliberately did not put Serbia on the list of countries whose citizens can freely enter the territory of Montenegro."

"That shows their attitude towards Serbia. If citizens of Serbia can freely travel to Hungary, Greece, Bulgaria, why can't they go to Montenegro as well? It is really ridiculous and shows the level which the state policy of Montenegro has reached. They are making moves that are to their own detriment and that are devastating for their citizens," Dacic stressed in a statement for Belgrade-based daily Blic.

Same day Montenegro said that it wouldn't open border with Serbia, 116 students from that country arrived in Belgrade

Yesterday, 116 Montenegrin students traveled to Belgrade on a free flight of the Montenegrin national airline Montenegro Airlines.

Montenegrin Interior Ministry State Secretary and Head of the Operational HQ for activities related to the return of Montenegrin citizens Dragan Pejanovic said that the Operational HQ, in cooperation with the Ministry of Education. organized a free transfer of Montenegrin students to Belgrade, in accordance with their obligations in universities in Serbia, said Podgorica daily Pobjeda.

(Telegraf.rs/Tanjug)