Solana met Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic in Brussels on Thursday and recommended avoiding political initiatives that would divert attention from economic and political reforms, the media reported.
Gallak quoted Solana as saying that the EU position had not changed and that the Belgrade Agreement must be respected. Solana added the EU appreciated the fact that the state union of Serbia and Montenegro was near completing a feasibility study and that the country could soon enter the next phase of the association process.
Reacting to the dismissal of Montenegro's proposal for redefining the status of the state union of Serbia in Montenegro, the ruling coalition in Montenegro said "nothing spectacular has happened". They said Podgorica would not give up its right to organise a referendum in February 2006 on the state and legal status of Montenegro. The Opposition, however, said that the Solana-Djukanovic meeting was "a fiasco of the Montenegrin Prime Minister".