Jasha Alfandari, president of the Jewish community of Montenegro and EJC affiliate, told a local newspaper that he felt safe as a Jew in the country and that there were “no ethnic problems”.
"In the neighboring country, up until two years ago, the Jewish cemetery was being constantly destroyed. In Montenegro, you have Kotor in which local authorities have been preserving and maintaining the Jewish cemetery in the old town for decades. That is how we are being treated in Montenegro,” Alfandari said in an interview with the Pobjeda daily.
Speaking in a meeting with Iran's accredited ambassador to Podgorica, Deputy Head of Montenegro Chamber of Commerce focused on his country's interest to cooperate with Iran to develop economic-trade cooperation.
Ivan Saviliovic and Majid Fahim Poor in a meeting on Tuesday negotiated on the prospect of cooperation and the ways to expand cooperation in post-sanction era.
Ethnic Albanians are rallying in the ethnically mixed municipality of Butel in Skopje on Thursday afternoon to protest the recent start of construction of a giant Orthodox cross that is financed by a Macedonian NGO.
There are fears that the protest may spark further tension between Macedonians and Albanians, who are at odds over the construction of the cross.
Some Albanians, who are predominantly Muslim, see the planned cross as a religious and ethnic provocation by Macedonians.
Although it has no official information that Montenegro will become a part of the migration route, its Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare has been conducting all the activities so as to be prepared for the potential influx of refugees, Minister Zorica Kovacevic said after the government's meeting in Podgorica.
Montenegro is ready to accept 10,000 migrants in transit, and it may provide daily accommodation for 2,000 migrants, according to the minister.