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Most Montenegrins do not want the country to join Nato – poll

Thu, Jun 25 2009 10:17 CET byClive Leviev-Sawyer 1083 Views
Most Montenegrins do not want the country to join Nato – poll

Croatia's prime minister Ivo Sanader, left, reviews a guard of honour, accompanied by his Montenegrin counterpart Milo Djukanovic, on his arrival in Podgorica, June 22 2009.


In March 2009, Montenegrin political strongman Milo Djukanovic overwhelmingly won a further term in government, with European Union and Nato accession for the country as key platforms – yet a new poll suggests that most people in the country either do not want, or are undecided about, Montenegro joining the military alliance.
 
Montenegro split from Serbia in 2006 after a referendum that put an end to its short-lived "state union" with its neighbour that had been a sequel to the disintegration of Yugoslavia. The Nato bombing that spelt the end for the Milosevic regime in Belgrade also saw some attacks on Montenegro.
 
In a survey released on June 24 2009, NGO the Centre for Democracy and Human Rights said that 43.3 per cent of Montenegrins opposed the country joining Nato, 26.7 per cent were undecided and 30 per cent were for. Seventy per cent said that the move should be put to a referendum.
 
The survey was done from June 11 to 29 among just more than 1000 respondents of the country’s about 650 000 citizens.
 
Montenegro received an invitation to Nato accession talks in 2008 and at the end of the year applied for EU membership.
 

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