July 11, 2018 - Montenegrin representatives, led by the country’s Prime Minister Duško Marković, met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the London Summit. The officials discussed the German support to the Montenegrin idea of establishing a regional institute for sustainable technologies.
The distinguished Chancellor has opened an important question: How to keep young people in the Region, how to keep those intellectuals and how to give them a new opportunity.
“I remind you, Chancellor Merkel, that Montenegro and CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear Research) has launched an initiative for the establishment of an international institute for sustainable technologies in the region. The initiative was supported by a significant number of countries. We should give the opportunity to thousands of young people in the region. I invite you and your Government to support this initiative, as I recently asked Andrej Plenković and the Croatian Government to support this project,” Prime Minister Duško Marković said.
Marković also recalled a question about security and said that it is important for the Balkan region to strengthen this aspect. He specified that Montenegro has a border agreement with Bosnia and Herzegovina and that the country has carefully dealt with the situation caused by Kosovo's inability to ratify the border agreement in the parliament.
“We have an excellent interim border agreement with Croatia. So far, we have not had an incident, and Croatia is the biggest promoter of our European and Euro-Atlantic integration. We have also created the ability to oppose the third party,” as noted by Montenegrin representatives in London.
“I thank Prime Minister Theresa May and her Government for allowing us to respond to this challenge in a quality manner and that our European and Euro-Atlantic perspectives will not be questioned,” concluded Prime Minister Duško Marković in front of Montenegrin representatives at the end of the Summit in London.
