"Such statements prove that there is a possibility of incidents happening in Montenegro in the coming days and months, especially in light of increased radicalism among clero-nationalist and Orthodox-fundametalist forces, and the meddling of the Serb Orthodox Church in political affairs," Miodrag Vukovic told the MINA news agency.
Leaders of the "Peti oktobar" movement, Vesna Pesic, Vladan Batic and Nenad Canak on Sunday
warned Montenegro that there was a danger that forces following the Serb Orthodox Church and Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica might grow stronger and cause conflicts on Montenegrin territory and prevent the organising of a referendum on its independence.
"Montenegro is heading towards the Bosnian scenario. When the referendum succeeds, which I don't doubt will happen, Serb autonomous areas like those in Bosnia will be set up in northern Montenegro," the leader of the Social Democrats of Vojvodina, Nenad Canak, told Belgrade media calling on Serbian President Boris Tadic to prevent a civil war in Montenegro.
Canak forecasts "a new Dayton on Montenegro, the only difference being that the peace agreement would be signed by Kostunica instead of Slobodan Milosevic".
Vesna Pesic said that the army was also involved in the process against Montenegro, which she said was supported by experienced structures of the regime of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.
The Serb Orthodox Church in Montenegro is a stronger political factor than the entire opposition, a former foreign minister of the state union, Goran Svilanovic, said.
Svilanovic believes that the Serbian government has given the Serb Orthodox Church more room for exerting its influence than any other former government and that the church has received, completely unexpectedly, strong support from Serbian President Boris Tadic.
Miodrag Vukovic said Montenegro should establish closer cooperation with democratic forces in Serbia to prevent what he considers a very likely demise of Serbia.
Vukovic claims that people and institutions of the Milosevic regime have been rehabilitated in recent months and recalls that Serbia has cooled relations with Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia and Montenegro.
The Montenegrin opposition, however, claims that the claims made by Canak, Pesic and Svilanovic come from "politicians that are on the margins of the Serbian political scene" and that Montenegrin PM Milo Djukanovic has ordered them for purposes of creating a pre-referendum atmosphere.