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President Milo Djukanovic's coalition won Montenegro's election, but by a narrow margin. How will the result affect his plans to seek independence from Yugoslavia...
Kostunica has vowed that the new government's first priority will be to improve relations with Montenegro, the junior republic in the Yugoslav federation. President Milo Djukanovic's pro-Western government boycotted last month's elections and renounced the legitimacy of all federal institutions. Kostunica will have to cajole them back by offering Montenegro increased autonomy. Though he blasts the NATO intervention in Kosovo, Kostunica acknowledges that the U.N. peacekeeping force "will have to stay for a while, and not for a short while." Despite his strong nationalism, Kostunica has shown flexibility on Kosovo's future, calling for "a real...
...scratching their heads, wondering what it would take to get rid of the guy. So they reached for their checkbooks. Over the past year, the U.S. has spent about $40 million to support Yugoslavia's independent media, trade unions and civic groups and to boost the U.S.-friendly President Milo Djukanovic of Montenegro via the U.S. Agency for International Development and other agencies. That money, the Administration says, helped build the opposition that was key to bringing Milosevic down...
...deep as they do elsewhere in the former Yugoslavia. Montenegrins, unlike Croats and Kosovo Albanians, are ethnically similar to Serbs. Support for outright independence from Serbia among ordinary Montenegrins is mixed: about 35% are for it at any cost, while a much larger proportion--including members of Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic's ruling party--say they would prefer continued ties with Serbia, but under a different regime. "Time is on the side of a democratic Montenegro," says a Djukanovic ally, Save Paraca, mayor of Cetinje, the traditional heartland of Montenegrin nationalism...
...Montenegro's pro-Western leadership now faces an acute dilemma that could have global consequences: It either backs away from its path of confrontation with Belgrade, or presses forward for full independence. Milosevic has called the bluff of Montenegro's President Milo Djukanovic, who has been moving steadily in the direction of seceding. Belgrade has now signaled clearly that it's willing to risk violent confrontation to keep its last non-Serb republic. The situation is fraught: Montenegro provides Yugoslavia's only access to the sea; in addition, some 30 percent of Montenegro's population remain loyal to Milosevic...