Milatovic: We need to work on regional cooperation as long as EU is our goal

PODGORICA - Montenegro's President-elect Jakov Milatovic said on Tuesday his country's potential membership in the Open Balkan initiative needed to be discussed by the next government in Podgorica, to be elected by a new Montenegrin parliament.

"My political stance on that is very clear. Even before I became a minister in the Government of Montenegro, a politician and president of Montenegro, I worked very much in the professional sense on advancement of regional economic integration in the Western Balkans, including at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, where I was employed," Milatovic told Tanjug in an exclusive interview.

He recalled that outgoing President Milo Djukanovic had attended the initial meetings that had led to the establishment of Open Balkan.

"Meanwhile, he changed his political narrative on Open Balkan," Milatovic said,...