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From the Montenegrin Society, Doclean Academy of Sciences and Arts,
Montenegrin P.E.N. Centre and Montenegrin Association of Independent Writers
An Open Letter to Mr Xavier Solana
21 February 2002
Dear Mr Solana,
With regret, we note that your "project" of re-defining the only formally
existing Montenegro and Serbia has stirred up profound discontent in the
majority of the population of Montenegro, since their right to free expression
of their desire with regard to the state framework in which they wish to
live is thereby denied. Thus the universal right of peoples to self-determination,
and the whole body of human rights on which the constitution of the European
Union and the rest of the democratic world has been founded, is flagrantly
abused. Montenegrin creative intelligentsia has over all these years strongly
opposed Milosevic's genocidal actions and violence of all kinds, and therefore
is even more revolted by the attempts at imposing on Montenegro the unacceptable
solutions for its legal-statehood status.
After World War I, the winner-countries callously eliminated the Kingdom
of Montenegro, the old sovereign state and their war ally, and annexed
it to Serbia. With this unheard-of act Europe left Montenegro to the great-Serbian
assimilative project that abolished the right of Montenegrins to their
own historical heritage and national culture. What is happening nowadays,
unfortunately, resembles that brutal 1918, and fuels the painful historical
experience of the Montenegrins in which freedom and independence could
not be won without victims and blood. What is astonishing is the fact that
in Europe today the ideas can exist that the Montenegrin people be denied
the right to a democratic declaration of their own destiny.
The intentions and previous results of the mediating mission were experienced
by the Montenegrin intelligentsia as a lobbying for the interests of the
Milosevican Serbia. Anti-European, expansionist Milosevican authorities
in Belgrade, which not so long ago condemned Your Excellency and other
leading statesmen of Europe to years-long imprisonment, have their successors
in the present "federal" authorities and pro-Milosevican opposition in
Montenegro --- which is also confirmed by the fact that the said court
sentences (as much as Milosevic's constitutional coup) have not yet been
abolished. The implementation of the actual European offer for the settlement
of the relations between Montenegro and Serbia would strengthen the conviction
of the chauvinists that crime pays, and that Milosevic and his followers,
at least as far as Serbia is concerned, were on the right path.
We are aware that Europe disposes of potentials to offer Montenegro,
once again, as the victim to the great-Serbian imperialistic appetites,
but in that case it will sacrifice also its fundamental humanistic and
democratic principles. Our independent associations, created as an intellectual
resistance movement against Milosevic's criminal plans and war raids, express
their profound discontent because of the repeated violence against the
majority will of the Montenegrin citizens.
For Montenegrin Society (Matica Crnogorska): Mr Branko Banjevic, President
For Doclean Academy of Sciences and Arts (DANU): Mr Jevrem Brkovic,
President
For Montenegrin P.E.N. Centre: Mr Sreten Perovic, President
For Montenegrin Association of Independent Writers: Mr Milorad Popovic,
President
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