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Montenegrin leaders agree on new constitution
Real estate news By Earthtimes.org
Wed, 10 Oct 2007 08:25:04 GMT
Podgorica, Montenegro - Montenegro's ruling coalition and a leading opposition party said they had reached an agreement to finally pave the way for the country's new constitution, local media reported Wednesday. Montenegro became independent from Serbia in June 2006 following a referendum, but so far has remained without a constitution, amid the feuding among Montenegrin leaders.
The deal of the Montenegrin leader Milo Djukanovic's Democratic Party of Socialists and their junior partners as well as the opposition Movement for Change announced late Tuesday, they had secured the two-thirds majority necessary to pass the constitution.
The contested issues were resolved through a compromise, including the introduction of Montenegrin, a dialect of Serbian, as the official language. Serbian, Albanian and Bosniak - another dialect of Serbian, spoken by Bosnian Muslims - are to be considered as equal- right languages. The constitution was one of the crucial missing elements in Montenegro's efforts to achieve a closer integration with the European Union. The constitution bill would reach the parliament in Podgorica "shortly," officials said.
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