Montenegro

Montenegrin authorities on Thursday said custom officials in the Adriatic port of Bar on Wednesday seized 250 kilograms of cocaine shipped from Ecuador, Latin America.

The ship was carrying containers from Ecuador to Montenegro’s neighbour, Albania. The cocaine haul was described as the biggest drugs bust in the history of Montenegro.

Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic will visit Ukraine next week to discuss diplomatic and economic cooperation between the two countries.

On the invitation of his counterpart, Ukraine’s Mikola Azar, Djukanovic will travel to Kiev on June 13 to hold talks with Ukraine’s new leaders.

Acting state prosecutor Veselin Vuckovic told local media on Monday that the first allegations of violations during the May 25 polls were already being probed and that all claims would be comprehensively checked.

Vuckovic appealed to anyone with relevant information to come forward.

After spending more than a decade in substandard collective centres, thousands of refugees in Montenegro are to get improved accommodation over the next three years.

The Montenegrin government, with foreign donor support, has launched a programme for re-housing displaced persons, which envisages the construction of at least 900 housing units.

Montenegrin contribution to flood relief praised

PODGORICA -- Montenegrin citizens and organizations have provided massive assistance to flood victims in Serbia, Serbian Ambassador to Montenegro Zoran Bingulac has said.

The election commission said on Thursday that it had rejected all 2,400 official complaints from Montenegrin watchdog organisation MANS because although they were signed by the leader of the opposition Democratic Front, Miodrag Lekic, they were submitted by MANS activists.

Serbia-Montenegro ties "excellent" - president

BELGRADE -- President Tomislav Nikolić thanked on Wednesday the government and people of Montenegro for their help during the catastrophic floods in Serbia last week.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic thanked on Wednesday the government and people of Montenegro for their help during the catastrophic floods in Serbia last week.

Montenegro sent help on time and without hesitation, which reduced the scale of the disaster, Nikolic told a joint news conference after a meeting with Montenegrin President Filip Vujanovic in Belgrade.

The director of MANS, Vanja Calovic, along with activists Dejan Milovac and Vuk Maras, said they were assaulted on Tuesday by a municipal election commission officer to whom they were attempting to hand over complaints about alleged irregularities at the polls on Sunday.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic will meet with Montenegrin President Filip Vujanovic in Belgrade on Wednesday.

Nikolic and Vujanovic will hold a meeting in the Serbian Presidency building in the afternoon and are also scheduled to speak to reporters afterwards.