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At least five prison officers and a number of inmates were injured in a mass brawl in Montenegro's largest prison in Podgorica on Wednesday.

Prison authorities said the riot involved more then 30 people who attacked prison staff during their regular daily walk.

Kosovo's Foreign Minister, Hashim Thaci, is due to visit Podgorica for a two-day visit on Thursday when he will meet the country's top officials.

However, the visit of the former leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army remains controversial among Montenegrins who cherish ties to Serbia.

Opposition Democratic Front leader Miodrag Lekic will next week start consultations with various parties on an initiative to form a technical temporary government because of what he termed the "serious political and economic crisis" in Montenegro.

Lekic said he would seek the support of all opposition NGOs and parties as well as parties representing ethnic minorities in parliament.

In its annual statement issued on Sunday, the Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral blasted "same-sex fornication" and implicity accused Montenegro's pro-EU government of encouraging it.

Montenegro's Parliamentary Health Committee held a hearing of top health officials on Friday about infections in a maternity ward that claimed the life of a new-born baby.

Lawmakers questioned health officials to determine their responsibility and the circumstances under which the infection occured and has been treated in the hospital in the northern town of Bijelo Polje.

The Prosecutor's Office on Tuesday filed an indictment accusing the editor-in-chief of the Montenegrin editions of the Belgrade-based paper, Novak Uskokovic, of the criminal offence of violating the reputation of minority people.