PLENARY SESSION FOR DRAFTING OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL CHARTER IN BELGRADE TODAY

Podgorica – The Constitutional Commission, which is supposed to hand in the draft of the Constitutional charter of Serbia and Montenegro to the parliaments, is expected to discuss today the issue of their future way of work – informs Podgorica daily newspaper "Pobjeda".
Of nearly 200 articles listed in the working version of the Constitutional charter, eventually, wrapping up the work of constitutional subcommission, the accord was reached in only three issues. One – the Charter should not have a preamble, two – the state union is composed of member states, Serbia and Montenegro, and three – the union represents one international legal subject.
All other disaccords come from the differences in conceptions, depending on what was the definition of the state union – whether it is one state or a union of two states.
Coordinator of the delegation of the Montenegrin Parliament in the commission for drafting the Constitutional Charter Dragan Kujovic said that if approved by parliaments and the signatories of the Agreement, the Constitutional charter could be arranged by two Governments. He also reminded that that text also should be returned to the commission, which will propose the final version.

PRESIDENT OF MONTENEGRO MILO DJUKANOVIC:
THE BELGRADE AGREEMENT AS THE CONSTITUTIONAL CHARTER

Podgorica – The Belgrade Agreement, with some minor legal and technical adjustments, might become the Constitutional charter of Serbia and Montenegro – said Montenegro's President Milo Djukanovic in his interview to Radio Television Serbia.
"I think that Serbia and Montenegro are two states that have decided to try to preserve the state union and to give it a chance in the following three years" – said Djukanovic. He also added that the union should "in the first place, deal with the international representation, because the international community wants one subjectivity".
Reminding that the recent work on the Charter required a lot of time and that the Commission did all it could, Djukanovic underlined that "now we ought to strongly establish what was in the meantime done by the Governments of Serbia and Montenegro, i.e. the agreement about the economic contents of the cooperation within the state union".