RESIGNATIONS IN MONTENEGRIN GOVERNMENT

PODGORICA, April 10 (Hina) - Because of to their disagreement with the Belgrade Agreement on the redefining relations between Montenegro and Serbia, members of the Social democratic Party (SDP) of Montenegro tendered their resignations to duties in the Montenegrin government. European Union's High Commissioner for Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana called the leaders of parties advocating a modern Montenegro for a meeting in Brussels. #L# Resignations were tendered by Zarko Rakcevic, Montenegrin deputy premier, Branko Lukovac, Foreign Minister, Labour Minister Dragisa Burzan, and Maritime Affairs and Transport Minister Jusuf Kalamperovic. Rakcevic told a news conference on Wednesday that the SDP representatives had abandoned the government because of the Belgrade Agreement which had been adopted by the Montenegrin parliament a day earlier. He also said that a new government should be formed, consisting of experts and party representatives from the bloc advocating a modern Montenegro. This government's programme would be to renew Montenegrin statehood, he said. Extraordinary parliamentary elections are always a possibility, he added. Rakcevic confirmed that the SDP and the Liberal Alliance (LS) would initiate a discussion in parliament about confidence in Prime Minister Filip Vujanovic's government. At the same time, leaders of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) led by Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic, expressed readiness to form a new government with the SDP and the liberals. They stressed that they would not concede to any blackmail. Djukanovic said this was a fair move. All three parties have in common "joint goals -- democratisation, Europeisation, and Montenegro's independence and international legal subjectivity," he said. The realisation of the planned state policy will he aggravated if the SDP and the LS refuse to form a Montenegrin bloc, Djukanovic said. (hina) lml sb