Montenegrin government

The Montenegrin government was urged to finally acknowledge and condemn the Royal Yugoslav Army’s killing of around 1,000 Bosniak civilians in the northern village of Sahovici.

Montenegrin opposition leader Nebojsa Medojevic on Thursday accused the government of handing over vital territorial waters to Croatia and called on "democratic forces" in the country to hold a protest rally.

Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic on Monday said the two countries needed finally to resolve a long-standing border dispute in the Adriatic Sea, as continued arguments could deter potential investors in oil and gas fields.

The unemployment rate in Montenegro has risen by a sixth consecutive month, and is now 2 per cent higher compared to the same period last year, the latest data show.

The Employment Bureau on Tuesday reported that the number of unemployed adults rose to 31,190 in September and to 32,670 this week.

Talks on government personnel changes could be completed in the second half of October , BIRN has learned from a source in the Montenegrin government, ending in a vote on the government's reconstruction in parliament.

The Montenegrin government has proposed emergency amendments to the law governing the National Security Agency, ANB, to establish a security system to meet NATO standards and improve the way in which the country treats classified information.

Several dozen ethnic Serbs and representatives of pro-Serbian parties in Montenegro protested on Sunday in front of the Ukrainian embassy in Podgorica, saying that they wanted to show solidarity with their “Russian brothers in Novorossiya” – the separatists’ name for parts of eastern Ukraine that they are trying to seize from Kiev.

The Montenegrin government is to discuss an initiative to change the working hours of the public sector at a session on Thursday.

Instead of working from nine to five, the country's more than 60,000 public employees could start to work at 7am instead.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Youth and Sports Minister Vanja Udovicic and Head of Directorate for Youth and Sports in the Montenegrin government Igor Vusurovic signed Thursday in Belgrade a Memorandum on Cooperation in sports and youth policy.

Udovicic said that regional cooperation is a priority for the Serbian government and stressed that such foreign policy is best promoted through sports.

The British band Jamiroquai will be performing as the lead star at the start of the Exit music festival, which started in Budva on Tuesday.

For the first time, the festival is being held this year at two locations, at the Novi Sad fortress, as usual, and at a new venue, the Jaz Beach in Montenegro.