PM Marković: State will not enter churches with batons, but we will amend laws, they will be held accountable for organising memorial services for war criminals

Podgorica, Montenegro (18 July 2018) -- Prime Minister Duško Marković announced during today’s Prime Minister's Questions session in the Parliament that amendments to the laws will be introduced in order to prevent organising memorial services for war crimes convicts as it happened yesterday when priests of the Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Coastlands of the Serbian Orthodox Church organise a service in Herceg-Novi.

"The clergy of Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Coastlands organised a memorial service for war criminals and associate occupier. This is unacceptable and it offends the feelings of those people who have created the State for centuries, especially those who are devoted to anti-fascist values of the democratic world as a whole. Someone tried to force us to enter the church chambers with batons. Such a thing will never be done by the Government I lead. But it is disgraceful of the clergy of the Metropolitanate of Montenegro to organise memorial services there. The State will find a way to tackle this matter. We will amend laws and someone will be held accountable for this," said Prime Minister Duško Marković responding to the question by Andrija Mandć, MP, from the Democratic Front.

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