The modified version, adopted in early March, is left without the section on Serbia's goal to see to it that the Serb people in Montenegro are politically constituent, like they are in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
During a ceremony of the opening of a Serbian consulate in the coastal Montenegrin city of Herceg-Novi on Wednesday, Montenegrin President Filip Vujanovic welcomed the leaving out of that disputable segment of the document.
At the ceremony which was also attended by Serbian President Boris Tadic, Vujanovic said Montenegro was satisfied with the removal of the previous term about Serbs' aspirations for being a constituent people in Montenegro.
The formulation "had offended the constitutional order of Montenegro", Vujanovic said yesterday in Herceg-Novi.
Opening the consulate, President Tadic said that Serbia would not interfere in the internal affairs of Montenegro, trying to defuse tensions caused by the said strategy.
Formulations about granting the constituent people status to Serbs in Croatia have also been left out of the second version of the document.
Serbian Minister for the expatriates, Srdjan Sreckovic, said in mid-February that the position of Serbs in neighbouring countries was far from being desirable, adding that Belgrade would demand that Serbs in Croatia be granted the status of a constituent people.
Croatian Deputy Prime Minister Slobodan Uzelac, who is also a high-ranking representative of the ethnic Serbs, responded that it was not advisable to discuss the position of Serbs in Croatia without legitimate representatives of the Serb community in Croatia. He said that the status of Serbs was more complex and should not come down to the question whether they would be a constituent people or not.