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Montenegrin Prime Minister Dusko Markovic scheduled an emergency meeting of the security services on Tuesday as the country awaited assistance from NATO and the EU to tackle blazes in the coastal and central area of the country, after admitting that it could not cope on its own.

Montenegrin Foreign Minister Srjan Darmanovic this week visited the Vatican and met with the head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis.

On this occasion, Darmanovic invited the pope to visit Montenegro.

Milos Marovic, the son of former high-ranking official Svetozar Marovic, became a Serbian citizen in January.

Montenegro state broadcaster RTCG reported this, and added that Milos Marovic is asking to serve his one-year prison sentence in Serbia.

The axed former director of Montenegro's public broadcaster, RTCG, Rade Vojvodic, on Thursday announced a lawsuit against the board that fired him amid claims in the pro-government media of an opposition plot to unseat him.

Montenegrin journalist Marko Milacic has filed a complaint against the management of the public broadcaster, RTCG, and its director, after they scrapped the competition for a new chief of the state TV, claiming the decision was illegal and politically motivated.

U.S. Analyst University Daniel Serwer says there is strong support for Montenegro's accession to NATO and the EU in the wake of the elections in that country.

Montenegro's leaders are to meet yet again next week to try to resolve the crisis in the country following the failure of a no-confidence vote in the government in January.

The crisis, Montenegro's worst since it gained independence in 2006, revolves around opposition claims that the government has no legitimacy to organize general elections planned this year.

Several hundred opposition protesters gathered in front of the parliament in Podgorica, demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic, who has held power since 1991.

Protesters carrying Serbian and Montenegrin flags shouted "Milo, thief!" and accused the governmnet of corruption, undemocratic practices and election fraud.

The opposition Democratic Front is planning a new demonstration on Saturday aimed at forcing out Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic, who has held power since 1991.

Montenegro's political leaders are to meet again on Friday in an attempt to resolve the crisis in the country following the failure of a no-confidence vote in the government in January.

But talks between Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic's Democratic Party of Socialists, DPS, and opposition parties have become stuck over who should control the public broadcaster, RTCG.