The leader of the People's Party, which is an opposition party in Montenegro, was quoted by the daily as saying that he "has had no doubts for a long time that the rapprochement between Podgorica and Zagreb is the logical product of an anti-Serb hysteria".
Nikola Soc also commented on Mesic's statement that Montenegro and Croatia had never been at war. "If there was no war between Montenegro and Croatia, why did Milo Djukanovic (the then President and the current Prime Minister of Montenegro) offer an apology," the party's head told the daily.
The vice president of another pro-Serb opposition party -- the Democratic Serb Party, stretched the theory on the Zagreb-Podgorica axis further to Tirana, Albania, as the third element of this alliance.
Ranko Kadic believes that the statement given by President Mesic "is part of a joint strategy, whose architect is Jevrem Brkovic". He labelled Brkovic, a prominent Montenegrin intellectual in exile in Croatia in the 1990s, as "the main propagator of Franjo Tudjman and his policy".
Zoran Zizic, a leader of the Serb People's Party, who was the president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 2001 and who resigned after the then Yugoslav assembly passed a law on cooperation with the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, complained that the current Montenegrin authorities were breaching the Constitutional Charter of the state union of Serbia and Montenegro and Montenegro's Constitution which, he said in his statement published by the same daily, was unfair.