MONTENEGRIN PARTIES DIVIDED AS TO FUTURE OF YUGOSLAV FEDERATION

PODGORICA, Jan 27 (Hina) - Montenegrin politicians have entirely opposite views of talks senior representatives of Montenegro, Serbia, and Yugoslavia held on the future of the federation on Friday, in the presence of Javier Solana, the EU's high commissioner for common foreign and defence policy. Prime Minister Filip Vujanovic said on Saturday Montenegro had reaffirmed its stance that the future lay in a federation of independent and sovereign Montenegro and Serbia, on the European Union model. According to presidential adviser Miodrag Vukovic, "the final political solution is one of two, namely that Montenegro's senior politicians... agree on a consensual separation of Serbia and Montenegro on the agreement that they recognise each other as independent and sovereign states, as the Czech Republic and Slovakia did. "The other solution, the one we are constantly talking about, sees the citizens deciding at a Montenegro referendum in April or May on what kind of state they wish to live in," said Vukovic. The Liberal Party is disappointed with the Friday talks held in Belgrade and says time is being wasted and uncertainty escalating. The Social Democratic Party says that "Montenegro doesn't need any favours from the international community if it can't have its own state." Dragan Soc of the People's Party said the Belgrade talks were "yet another step further from the referendum." (hina) ha