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Email this citationCIAO DATE: 07/04
Montenegro: Which Way Next?
November 30, 2000
Abstract
The removal of Slobodan Milosevic's regime, with its poisonous influence on the entire Balkan region, raises hopes that a host of inter-connected problems may now stand a significantly better chance of being resolved, including the future status of Kosovo and of Montenegro, both notionally still a part of the Yugoslav federation.
The changes in Belgrade have necessarily required both international policy makers and Montenegrin political leaders rapidly to adjust their positions on Montenegro's future status. Since a split in the ruling party in 1997, Montenegro has increasingly distanced itself from Belgrade, and political life in Montenegro has for the last three years been dominated by the question of the republic's relationship with Serbia. As the Montenegrin government adopted a pro-western stance, in opposition to Milosevic, the United States and the EU were ready with support, including substantial financial assistance.
