Goran Tuponja

A Montenegrin opposition politician on Wednesday accused the government of treating the nation's cultural heritage as "market goods" after the Austro-Hungarian Mamula fortress on the coast was offered on a lease for a luxury tourist complex.

The Montenegrin parliament's Committee on International Relations on Thursday failed to agree on the candidacy of the former Mayor of Podgorica, Miomir Mugosa, for the post of ambassador to Slovenia.

Opposition MPs and deputies from the junior ruling party, the Social Democratic Party, SDP, boycotted the session.