Word: montenegro
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...lack of interest, forcing another attempt next year. The biggest loser so far is Vojislav Kostunica, the current President of Yugoslavia, who has outdistanced his rivals in both elections but who could be out of a job next year, when the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia becomes just "Serbia and Montenegro." In the first round, Seselj came in third, with 23% of the vote. But he insists all "Serb patriots" will vote for him this time, thanks to the endorsement of Slobodan Milosevic and his old party. But Seselj has run a strangely negative campaign. In press conferences...
...World Bank. The main reformist force in the country and propagator of reforms is the Serbian government led by Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, who recently gave a much-praised speech at the Kennedy School of Government. The other major candidate is Vojislav Kostunica, president of Serbia and Montenegro, a traditionalist advocating a moderate pace of reforms, a stance he has much profited from in terms of popular support. He has tended to avoid any unpopular steps—what reforms are in fact to a large extent about—and has instead often criticized others who did. Kostunica...
YUGOSLAVIA Uranium Traces U.N. scientists said they had found areas in Serbia and Montenegro where the soil and air is still contaminated by depleted uranium, three years after nato bombing in the region. The U.N. Environment Program said there was a risk of groundwater contamination from five sites in the Presevo Valley and at Cape Arza...
After ten years of often violent and convulsive episodes, Yugoslavia appears set to quietly slip away ? almost as if the country died in its sleep. On 14 March, representatives of Yugoslavia and its two republics, Serbia and Montenegro, announced that they had agreed to a new, looser structure for Yugoslavia along with a new name for the federation ? Serbia and Montenegro. The decision must now be ratified by the Yugoslav, Serbian, and Montenegrin parliaments. the whole story...
...costs of a war. The EU is buying itself time by promising the Montenegrins that a new era is upon them. But this most recent move is just fanning latent flames toward independence. After all, the confederation is an impossible project, built upon the much-touted idea that Montenegro, a “separate” republic, would have “equal powers with Serbia.” This integration could more accurately be called political assimilation...