Andrijevica

Montenegrin Government and CRBC officials at the Bar Boljare highway first phase opening ceremony. Photo: Government of Montenegro

According to a government report published on Wednesday outgoing Finance Minister Aleksandar Damjanovic and CRBC official Hei Shiquiang met on July 3 about potential cooperation on the construction of the second and third phases of the highway.

The first phase of the Montenegrin Bar-Boljare highway. Photo: Government of Montenegro

On July 13, Prime Minister Dritan Abazovic opened the first section of the highway, seven years after the Chinese-financed project started, and drove up Montenegro's public debt to 90.85 per cent of GDP.

Residents of Andrijevica started a blockade in the town of Slatina, protesting over the arrest of a priest of the Serbian Orthodox Church and Bishop Joanikije, head of Diocese of Budimlje-Niksic.
The citizens of Andrijevica are blocking the main road Berane - Andrijevica - Plav from 11 am.
The long line of motor vehicles was formed in the length of one kilometer.

The epicenter was in the vicinity of the town of Plav, in the northeast of the country, Montenegro's Seismological Service has announced.

Tanjug is reporting that an M5.3 quake hit the area of the tri-border between Serbia, Montenegro, and Albania, and was felt all the way north to Belgrade.