Dnevne Novine

Retired Commander of NATO forces for Europe, Wesley Clark, hopes that Serbia will look up to Montenegro when it comes to NATO integration.

The Montenegrin Interior Ministry (MUP) has initiated, ex-officio, procedures to strip the mayor of the town of Kotor of his Montenegrin citizenship.

The reason is that the mayor, Vladimir Jokic, is also a citizen of Serbia.

Members of the religious sect Aum Shinrikyo who were in Montenegro where they "performed rituals" will be deported on Monday, local media are reporting.

Podgorica-based daily Dnevne Novine writes that this concerns 55 Russian and five Japanese citizens who have been ordered to leave the country by March 28 because they failed to register their stay with Montenegro's authorities.

France: Montenegro not yet ready to join NATO

PODGORICA -- The office of French President Francois Hollande has confirmed his view that Montenegro does not fulfill conditions for NATO membership.

This is also true of other candidate-countries, it was said in Paris.

The Cancer Society of Montenegro has warned that 40 per cent of adult Montenegins still smoke, which is way above the European average.

The organization on Monday said that of a total of 478,000 Montenegrins over 18 years, almost 200,000 are smokers.

The country has the third highest smoking rate in Europe, beaten only by Turkey and Greece.

Stathis' company, Media Nea, took over the bankrupt state-owned daily on Monday, as the only investor interested in buying the troubled outlet.

The Greek company, which already owns another Montenegrin daily, Dnevne Novine, offered 750,000 euros for the newspaper.

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