Jakov Milatovic

BELGRADE - Montenegrin President Jakov Milatovic concluded a two-day official visit to Serbia with a meeting with Patriarch Porfirije of the Serbian Orthodox Church at the Church of St Sava in Belgrade.

"I concluded the visit to Belgrade with a meeting with His Holiness Serb Patriarch Porfirije," Milatovic wrote in a post on his Instagram profile.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Monday dismissed as untrue reports the Serbian Postal Savings Bank was to acquire Montenegro's Prva Banka, whose largest stakeholder is Aco Djukanovic, the brother of former Montenegrin president Milo Djukanovic.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Monday Serbia would provide a well-grounded response to what his Montenegrin counterpart Jakov Milatovic had told him about the issue of an extradition of former Serbia and Montenegro president Svetozar Marovic from Serbia to Montenegro.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Monday he had had a long, open and civilised discussion with Montenegrin counterpart Jakov Milatovic about many issues and that they had disagreed on some of them but agreed on many others.

At a joint press conference after the meeting, Vucic said they had discussed geopolitical and regional problems.

BELGRADE - Montenegro is a friend to Serbia and Serbia is a friend to Montenegro, Montenegrin President Jakov Milatovic said in Belgrade on Monday, noting that his visit to the Serbian capital turned a new page in Serbia-Montenegro relations.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic (R) and Montenegro's President Jakov Milatovic (L) inspect the honour guard before their meeting in Belgrade, Serbia, on July 10, 2023. Photo: EPA-EFE/ANDREJ CUKIC

BELGRADE - Serbia is trying to advance its ties with Montenegro and make them incomparably better, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said after meeting with Montenegrin President Jakov Milatovic in Belgrade on Monday.

BELGRADE - Montenegro's President Jakov Milatovic, who is on an official visit to Serbia, was given a red-carpet, guard-of-honour welcome outside the Palace of Serbia on Monday as the national anthems of the two countries were being played.

Milatovic was greeted by Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.

Leader of Europe Now movement Milojko Spajic talks to media after casting his ballot in Podgorica, Montenegro. Photo: EPA-EFE/BORIS PEJOVIC

The result confirmed Europe Now's dominance after it took power in the capital, Podgorica, and another town in October last year and its deputy leader, Jakov Milatovic, beat incumbent Milo Djukanovic in April's presidential election.

• More than 542,000 Montenegrin citizens are eligible to vote at 1,038 polling stations.
• The last parliamentary elections in August 2020 saw Milo Djukanovic's Democratic Party of Socialists ousted from power after almost three decades.