The US Embassy in Podgorica receives a bomb threat

SManalysis

13/02/2021

The situation in the Balkans has started to worsen again this year, where elements linked to Moscow and Belgrade are trying to create destabilization, say media sources.

Everything is happening not by chance at a time when Kosovo is also holding an electoral process, where in all likelihood the control of Belgrade will be less and less, or blocked at all.

According to the Podgorica-based Pobjeda newspaper, a Niksic resident has been arrested for threatening to bomb the US embassy in Montenegro.

The U.S. Embassy reported to police that they received threatening calls from a phone number in which an unknown person threatened to drop a bomb on the building of that diplomatic mission.

Police, controlling and coordinating security centers in Podgorica and Niksic, determined that the calls were made by Mandic.

"Pobjeda" writes that Mandic was previously known for his extremist behavior and that, as they say, he was a "follower of the Chetnik movement".

But this is not an isolated event. After a state authority has demanded the lifting of sanctions against Russia and the withdrawal of recognition of Kosovo.

The Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Montenegro, Strahinja Bulajic, stated that ‘recognition of Kosovo is the greatest humiliation of Montenegro in its historical duration’.

In an interview with the Borba newspaper, Bulajic said he expected Montenegro to build friendly relations with Serbia, which he called the most important, economically strongest and most promising in the region.

When asked if it is more natural for Montenegro to first build relations with Serbia and then with everyone else, he replied with a counter-question: “You ask me, is it natural for a brother to be with his brother? his? Is it natural for a brother to seek the help of his brother first, to consult with him or with someone who has always worked against him? ”

Montenegro is facing the local election campaign which has once again brought back the ethnic clash in the country. Commenting on the introduction of sanctions against Belarus and the extension of sanctions against Russia, Bulajic recalled that the EU imposed sanctions on Russia in 2014 after the Crimean referendum, which, he said, expressed their clear will and desire to returned to their homeland, Russia.