Sanader said he welcomed efforts of the current government in Montenegro to move further from a policy that had caused the damaging of Dubrovnik and Konavle, the southernmost Croatian region, during the war in the 1990s.
Sanader said that the two countries would soon start preparing a permanent agreement on the Croatian-Montenegrin border that should replace the interim agreement on the border between Croatia and the former state union of Serbia and Montenegro.
The two premiers also agree that it is necessary to prepare a new agreement on the protection of respective ethnic minorities who they said can give an incentive to the bilateral cooperation.
Assessing that the relations between Montenegro and Croatia are at the best level, Sturanovic thanked Croatia for having supported Montenegro when the latter had embarked on the road towards the European Union.
Since it became an independent country on 21 May 2006, Montenegro has been admitted to the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. In March it ratified a Stabilisation and Association Agreement with the European Union, and preparations are under way for its entry into Council of Europe and the World Trade Organisation.
Asked by reporters to comment on the election of the Serb Radical Party Deputy President, Tomislav Nikolic, as the chairman of Serbia's Assembly, the two premiers said that Serbia needed a democratic government that would take the country to the road towards the European integration processes.
"The politics of Nikolic's party is not the European politics. This is an episode which I hope will not last long," Croatia's Prime Minister said.
Sturanovic added that his country would like to see a democratic government in Serbia with European aspirations.