MONTENEGRO: POLITICAL CRISIS AFTER AGREEMENT WITH SERBIA

PODGORICA, March 20 (Hina) - The Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS), led by Milo Djukanovic, has violated a coalition agreement which stipulates a referendum on Montenegro's status, which is why the Liberal Alliance no longer supports the minority Montenegrin government headed by Prime Minister Filip Vujanovic, Liberal Alliance official Miodrag Zivkovic said on Wednesday. #L# The minority Montenegrin government was established at the beginning of last July after parliamentary elections in Montenegro. It consists of experts from the DPS and the Social Democratic Party. Zivkovic said his party would soon withdraw parliamentary speaker Vesna Perovic. The Social Democratic Party also announced its withdrawal from the minority government if the Montenegrin parliament on Friday adopted the Belgrade Declaration on the establishment of new relations between Serbia and Montenegro, signed by Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic and Premier Filip Vujanovic. Leaders of the pro-Yugoslav coalition have urged changes to the Constitution and early parliamentary elections, or a so-called concentration government, consisting of representatives of all parliamentary parties. Djukanovic's DPS has been criticised by those political forces and coalition partners who are disappointed with the Belgrade agreement, because their political programme is to create an independent Montenegro. The Belgrade agreement stipulates a joint Serbian-Montengrin state. (hina) lml sb