"This has a concrete goal, to encourage those fighting for the rights of this community to continue to fight and the state will help them in that," Luksic said after meeting with Pusic on the fringes of Croatia Forum.
Luksic said he was pleased with the joint statement, describing it as "a way of contributing to the promotion of true European values."
"We respect the big integration challenges very much, but also the successes which Croatia had in the EU accession process, which are invaluable to Montenegro. We are creating the conditions for transposing those experiences and the struggle for civilisation values," he said.
Speaking of the joint statement, Pusic said that before becoming a politician, she had been active in non-governmental organisations, notably those protecting human rights. "It transpires from that the most important human right is the one whose violation is most tolerated in a society. By advocating the rights of this community, we advocate the respect for human rights and the fight against discrimination in general."
"We also advocate setting limits to the state. A person can have whatever personal opinion they like, but there must be a limit to which the state can go into an individual's private sphere, to which the state can be allowed to decide for the individual. This is the case with the struggle for the LGBT community," said Pusic.
She said this right was first openly mentioned by "the father of the modern state and modern democracy, John Stewart Mill, at the end of the 19th century, but we are still on the road to fully achieving it and showing that we don't want societies which discriminate against their members because of lifestyle, nation, race, colour, sex, age or regional belonging."
Pusic said Croatia was far from perfect in that respect, but that it was "among the few European countries whose five government ministers attended the Gay Pride in Split, which made a difference."