US Ambassador Michael Polt told TV Montenegro on Thursday the United States would respect any agreement the two republics reached in a democratic and transparent way. He said the state union's future should be decided by people.
Montenegrin media said today that Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe coordinator Erhard Busek told Montenegrin Parliament Speaker Ranko Krivokapic in Vienna yesterday that the pact felt the current state union had no future and that it welcomed any solution that might lead to a stable solution.
Serbian Deputy PM Miroljub Labus said he was still examining Montenegro's proposal and that his party, G17, would voice its opinion in the coming days.
Krivokapic said he expected the international community to okay Podgorica's proposal. "It's the model it wishes to see and has seen in Czechoslovakia... This could be the start of reintegration among the states of the Western Balkans as international states."
This view is shared by the other parties in the pro-Montenegrin bloc and the Albanian parties. Only the Liberals feel the proposal represents an attempt to buy time and to avoid calling a referendum on Montenegro's independence.
The parties from the pro-Serbian bloc in the Montenegrin parliament maintain that Vujanovic and Djukanovic's proposal is anticonstitutional and antidemocratic.