Montenegro Opposition Launch Petition Against Kosovo Recognition

The Democratic Front and the Serbian National Council, which represent the Serbian community in Montenegro, on Monday said they would launch a petition to annul Montenegro's decision to recognize Kosovo's independence.

"At least 85 per cent of Montenegrin citizens do not support the false recognition of the state of Kosovo," said a press release from the Democratic People's Party, one of the members of the Montenegro's largest opposition group, the Democratic Front, whose members visited mainly Serbian-populated town of North Mitrovica in Kosovo during the weekend.

The collection of signatures will start this week, the party added.

Montenegro recognised Kosovo's independence in 2008, much to the anger of Serbia and of the large Serbian community in Montenegro.

This is not first time the Montenegrin opposition has called for the withdrawal of Kosovo's recognition.

In May 2017, the leader of the pro-Russian Democratic Front, Nebojsa Medojevic, called on the government to protect the border with Kosovo and withdraw recognition of Kosovo's independence - after Kosovo again delayed a vote in its parliament on the vexed frontier demarcation deal.

Serbia still maintains that Kosovo is a province of Serbia although the two countries have agreed to "normalise" relations in the interests of EU integration.

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