Montenegro
Aktuelle Einsätze
OSCE Mission to Montenegro
(OSCE Long-Term Missions)
Beginn: 06/06
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Veteran PM 'to quit' (03.10.2006)
(Quelle: BBC) Montenegrin PM Milo Djukanovic, who led his country to independence, is to resign after 15 years in power, the country's president has said. The move comes despite his coalition's election victory last month.
Montenegro resumes talks on SAA accord with EU (26.09.2006)
(Quelle: Southeast European Times) The third official round of negotiations on a Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) with the EU began in Podgorica on Tuesday (26 September). SAA talks had been suspended while Montenegro was part of a state union with Serbia, but the newly independent state now hopes to wrap up the negotiations by the end of this year.
A win for PM's coalition (19.09.2006)
(Quelle: ISN Security Watch) The Montenegrin ruling coalition, headed by Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic achieved a sweeping victory in the 10 September parliamentary election by winning an absolute majority. According to preliminary results, the ruling Democratic Party of Socialists and the Social Democrats won over 50 percent of the parliament positions. Even though Djukanovic’s bloc could form a government solely comprised of its members, it will most likely offer certain minority parties, primarily Montenegrin Albanians, a share of the power.
Montenegro PM claims poll victory (11.09.2006)
(Quelle: BBC) Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic has claimed victory in the country's first general election since independence was declared in May. Mr Djukanovic said his party had won an absolute majority in a 'triumph of pro-European policy in Montenegro'. The official results have not been announced, but a leading monitoring body said it projects a Djukanovic win. … Monitors from the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) said the vote was 'largely in line with international standards', despite some shortcomings.
Montenegro seeks ODIHR election observers (06.08.2006)
(Quelle: Southeast European Times) Foreign Minister Miodrag Vlahovic asked the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) to send observers to next month's parliamentary elections, the newspaper Pobeda reported on Saturday (5 August). … Both parliamentary and local elections are scheduled for 10 September, the first since Montenegro's split from Serbia in May.
Annan, General Assembly welcome Montenegro as 192nd UN Member State (28.06.2006)
(Quelle: UN News) Lauding the non-violent and democratic process that gained Montenegro its independence from Serbia only five weeks ago, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today welcomed the United Nations’ 192nd Member, as its flag, a golden double eagle on a red field, was raised at the world organization’s Headquarters in New York.
The effect of Montenegrin independence (06.06.2006)
(Quelle: ISN Security Watch) Montenegro's parliament on Friday adopted a declaration of independence, officially re-establishing Montenegro as an independent state and making it the sixth and final republic of the former Yugoslavia to complete the split with the former federation. The declaration defines Montenegro, population 620,000, as a fully independent state, no longer a part of the state union with neighboring Serbia. … Perhaps more than anything, Serbian officials fear that Montenegro's newly won independence - expressing the will of the majority of its population - could weaken Belgrade's stance during ongoing talks to decide the future status of Kosovo, a Serbian province that has been under UN administration since 1999. EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn and representatives of the US State Department insist the two issues are not connected. But Kosovo Albanians and Kosovo Serbs disagree.
Montenegro erklärt Unabhängigkeit (03.06.2006)
(Quelle: Spiegel Online) Die Union mit Serbien ist offiziell beendet: Das Parlament von Montenegro erklärte die Unabhängigkeit des kleinen Balkanlandes. Damit setzten die Politiker ein Votum des Volkes um. … Das Parlament verabschiedete auch eine Deklaration über die Grundsätze des souveränen Staates. Darin wird Montenegro als unabhängiger, demokratischer und ziviler Staat bezeichnet, der eine Mitgliedschaft in NATO und Europäischer Union anstrebt. … Mit rund 650.000 Einwohnern hat Montenegro weniger Bürger als etwa Frankfurt am Main.
EU to launch SAA talks with Montenegro (30.05.2006)
(Quelle: Southeast European Times) The EU will launch separate negotiations on a Stabilisation and Association Agreement with Montenegro - once it proclaims its independence - Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn said on Monday (29 May). … Rehn also urged Montenegro to increase its administrative capacity and to step up the fight against corruption and organised crime.
Pro-unionists call for Montenegro recount (23.05.2006)
(Quelle: ISN) According to preliminary results, 55.4 per cent of voters said 'yes' to breaking away from its partner, a number just over the threshold set by the EU. … Serbianna.com quoted a statement from the four leaders of the pro-union bloc who called for the recount. 'The preliminary results of the referendum process should be double checked and ballots from all the polling stations should be recounted,' Serbianna quoted the letter as saying. According to reports, the pro-union bloc is also calling for a review of voting records at polling stations to see if they match a central voting list. Some 19,000 votes from 37 stations in Podgorica are in dispute.
Montenegrins elect to end union with Serbia (22.05.2006)
(Quelle: New York Times) By the narrowest of margins, voters in Montenegro, one of the original six pieces of communist-era Yugoslavia, chose to cut their ties with neighboring Serbia, according to results released today from Sunday's referendum. The vote means that 15 years after inter-ethnic conflict broke out tearing the western Balkans apart, one of the last steps in its final stabilization appears to be taking place. With the results confirmed by all but 49 of the 1,100 polling stations, the state's election commission said today that the referendum was carried with 55.4% of voters favoring independence, just barely over the 55 percent required by rules agreed to by the government and the European Union.
Mehrheit für Unabhängigkeit (22.05.2006)
(Quelle: Die Welt) Einen Tag nach dem Unabhängigkeitsreferendum in Montenegro hat die staatliche Wahlkommission eine Mehrheit für die Trennung von Serbien bestätigt. 55,4 Prozent der rund 480 000 Wahlberechtigten hätten sich am Sonntag für die Souveränität ihres Landes ausgesprochen, teilte der Kommissionsvorsitzende Frantisek Lipka in Podgorica mit. Lipka ist slowakischer Diplomat und von der Europäischen Union (EU) mit der Leitung der Wahlkommission beauftragt. … Der Führer der Fraktion für einen Erhalt der Union mit Serbien, Predrag Bulatovic, gestand einen Vorsprung der Unabhängigkeitsbefürworter ein. Er betonte jedoch, erst müsse das offizielle Ergebnis abgewartet werden.