November 14, 2018 - The ceremonial session of the Assembly of the Capital Cetinje, on the occasion of the 74th anniversary of the liberation of the town, was held today at Ivan Crnojevic Hall in the Government House. Summing up between two holidays, the Mayor of Cetinje Aleksandar Kašćelan said that the process of fiscal consolidation has begun, that the measures of saving and rationalization have been initiated at all levels, that conditions have been created for new investments and attracting of new investors.
Kašelan, as the key projects for the development of the town, cited the rationalization of projects envisioned by the Capital Development Plan for 2019.
"In the first place, it is meant to finally solve the problem of water supply for which the planned investment is about 4 million euros. It is also important to continue the construction of town roads, complete the reconstruction of the abyss, but also to create conditions for new employment through the purchase of the former Obod. We see it as a development resource that could be put into operation as a unique business zone where, in cooperation with domestic and foreign investors, small and medium enterprises will be opened for which certain interests already exist," Kašćelan said, adding that the priority and the purchase of space at Studentski Square, in order to use this locality for the rebuilding of the hotel “Lokanda”.
He also stated that the continuation of activities on the improvement of rural road infrastructure, the continuation of the tourist valorization of the town, Rijeka Crnojevica and Skadar Lake is planned and the reconstruction of the former children's hospital. Kašelan said that a Memorandum of Cooperation was signed this morning with the Ministry of Education, which also envisions the construction of a gym for sports education in the elementary school "Lovćenski partizanski odred”. He also said that the renewal of state independence and the success in implementing internal and foreign policy priorities is the best indicator that we are worthy of our ancestors. "Proud of our town, its history, tradition, beauty, on this day, we continue to fill the pledge of the capital's liberators to build Cetinje as a prosperous place," he concluded.
The ceremonial session was opened by the President of Cetinje Assembly, Maja Cetkovic, who said that "freedom and name were lost after the end of the Great War in 1918 in front of the shut eyes of the victorious nations, we have been resurrected and re-paid for the new world conflict, when even in the same machine of the Allies, of even greater warfare, and better war and post-war luck, Montenegro was part of."
On the occasion of the marking Capital’s day of Cetinje, the delegation of the Assembly of the Capital Cetinje and the Association of NOR units placed wreaths on the memorial to deceased soldiers in Nova dzada and at the cemetery of Vlaska Church.
Text by Cetinjski list, on November 13th, 2018, read more at CdM
