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...those in the Djukanovic camp, the federation with Serbia is unsustainable. Sharing power between such lopsided republics will entrench Montenegro's junior status, says Montenegrin Foreign Minister Branko Lukovac. "Either Belgrade suffers a little bit [when we leave] or we gradually disappear." Instead, Djukanovic wants a "union of independent states" based on the E.U. model. His political opponents counter that, despite his ample voter support, the whole scheme is simply an attempt to cling to power at any cost...
...West Djukanovic's star has clearly faded since Milosevic's ouster. Foreign Minister Lukovac recalls with rancor how the President and his allies were once the West's darlings when Montenegro was a base for funding the anti-Milosevic opposition. "All that is now forgotten," Lukovac says. "We are, it seems, disposable friends." But Western officials still must deal with one reality that is not easily disposed of: those Montenegrins who want independence, come what...
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