Vujanovic's office issued a statement on Friday reacting to claims by Luka Korda, head of Konavle municipality in Croatia, who told Podgorica's daily Republika yesterday that Vujanovic had agreed that Montenegro should pay war damages to Croatia also through shares in Montenegrin state companies.
"Vujanovic has informed the public of the position on this on a number of occasions, consistently and equally, both in Montenegro and in Croatia," read the statement.
In order to overcome the ugly page in Montenegrin-Croatian history over events during the early 1990s war in Croatia's Dubrovnik area, Vujanovic maintains that state policies should develop good neighbourly relations which reaffirm the friendly bilateral cooperation.
For that purpose, Vujanovic has supported the idea of compensating the value of property that was seized from the Dubrovnik battlefield and used in Montenegro as well as the agreement between the two chief state prosecutors that Montenegro should take over proceedings against Montenegrins who were accused in Croatia, said the statement.
With regard to compensation for the war damage, Vujanovic has said on a number of occasions that military activities in the Dubrovnik area were carried out by the former Yugoslav People's Army, under orders from its general staff, the statement read, adding that, "This means that Montenegro cannot be responsible for the damage committed".
During a recent visit to Zagreb, Vujanovic said that Montenegro, for the purpose of good-neighbourly cooperation, was ready to settle part of the damage that its citizens had caused in the Dubrovnik area as part of former JNA units.
Later in Podgorica, Vujanovic added that the compensation would be symbolic so that Montenegro could show good will to further develop good neighbourly relations with Croatia.
However, Korda told Republika daily that at a meeting in Dubrovnik, at which Croatian President Stjepan Mesic was also present, Vujanovic agreed that Montenegro should settle the damages to Croatia through shares in Montenegrin state companies.