DJUKANOVIC: PREVLAKA BEING TACKLED BY RELEVANT STATE BODIES

BELGRADE, June 23 (Hina) - Neither I nor Yugoslav president Vojislav Kostunica are dealing with the issue of Prevlaka, but it is being tackled by state bodies which have good communication at the relations Podgorica-Belgrade-Zagreb, said Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic. According to him, since the democratic changes in Montenegro, Serbia and Croatia, "Prevlaka has no longer been a contentious issue" and there is readiness of (all the sides) to settle the matter in the joint interest. After the break-up of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (ex-SFRY), Prevlaka, the southernmost Croatian area bordering with Montenegro, was treated by Belgrade as a territorial issue, while Croatia asserted it was only a security issue. "Belgrade's role in settling this issue, which was politicised during the years of the Yugoslav crisis, is merely of the formal and legal nature at the moment," Montenegrin President said in an interview he granted to a Belgrade-based newspaper "Politika". In the interview, which the daily ran on the front page of its issue on Saturday, Djukanovic said the current relations between Serbia and Montenegro "are not good, they do not suit needs and interests, and they should be changed." He reiterated his stand that it was necessary to fully cooperate with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) as well as to individualise responsibility of everybody liable for crimes (hina) ms