Montenegrin police

Interior ministers from the three Balkan countries held a meeting in Podgorica on Tuesday to discuss the threat from radical Islamist movements in the region and ways to prevent it through joint efforts.

"We have agreed that we will not allow terrorism to spread across the region and that we are ready to destroy it," Bosnian Interior Minister Dragan Mektic told reporters.

A Montenegrin police officer has been killed near Bijelo Polje, while on duty regulating traffic.

The driver of a car that he attempted to stop hit him and then fled the scene without helping the victim, the Montenegrin police said.

The Montenegrin police have expelled four Wahhabis - two from Serbia and two from Bosnia-Herzegovina.

The announcement was made by the Montenegrin Interior Ministry on Wednesday.

Montenegrin police arrested general Borislav Djukic on a warrant issued by Zagreb accusing him of involvement in blowing up a dam during the 1991-95 war in Croatia.

Senior police investigators from Europe, Japan and the United Arab Emirates gathered in Budva, Montenegro, on Wednesday to share information about ongoing investigations into the so-called "Pink Panther" robberies around the world.

The meeting is part of an Interpol operation against the gang, most of whose members come from the former Yugoslavia.

The Montenegrin government plans to set clearer rules on granting asylum in order to distinguish "those in need of international protection" from a growing number of illegal migrants, mainly from Asia and Africa.

Montenegrin police are searching for the unknown perpetrators of two attacks on the property of journalists in the north of the country.

Unknown persons vandalized the car of journalist Zorica Bulatovic when it was parked in front of her home in the town of Kolasin. After the attack, Bulatovic was placed under police protection.

Montenegrin police have arrested two fan suspected of throwing a flare at Russian goalkeeper Igor Akinfeyev at last Friday's chaotic football match, which had to be called off before time.

Montenegrin police have pledged to take all "preventative and, if necessary, repressive measures" to prevent incidents from disrupting the first official visit to Montenegro of the Foreign Minister of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci - a controversial figure to some because of his past history as a guerrilla leader.

Police in Podgorica on Thursday confirmed the arrest of three international arms traffickers suspected of conspiring to sell large weaponry to FARC rebels in Colombia, a movement designated as a terrorist organization.

The two Romanians, Cristian Vintila, 44, and Virgil Flaviu Georgescu, 42, and an Italian, Massimo Romagnoli, 43, were arrested on Monday and Tuesday.