Thus, an interesting expert team gathered in Belgrade. Out of sixteen negotiators, eight are from the ruling coalition in Montenegro. Drecun, Simonovic, and Radinovic are also from Montenegro, although members of the Serbian team. Experts selected by Kostunica, Lutovac, Samardzic, and Bulatovic, also hail from Montenegro. It turns out that only Danijal Cvjeticanin is not from Montenegro.
When all of that is added up, three teams negotiated about the future of Serbia and Montenegro. Montenegrins that advocate an independent state; Montenegrins who advocate a federation and were a part of the Serbian team; and Montenegrins by origin, who directly represented Serbia.
One must admit that the man who put together the Serbian team, Vojislav Kostunica, had a feel for political satire. He gathered Montenegrins to discuss the survival of the federation. But, one can understand the motivation of the president of FR Yugoslavia. As far as he is concerned, and he does not hide it, Montenegro is a part of the Serb national-state corpus.
It is more difficult to figure out what trouble forced representatives of the coalition "Together for Yugoslavia" to be inserted in the Serbian expert team. The pro-Yugoslav coalition boycotted every call to dialog in Montenegro. They rejected any idea of Montenegrin consensus, all proposals regarding the referendum... However, only one signal from Belgrade was sufficient to sent them scurrying. Who knows, perhaps Drecun and Vuksanovic really think that Serbia does not have better experts than the two of them. People took pity.
Thereby representatives of the coalition "Together for Yugoslavia" ended up being used a weaponry in the arms of the DOS. They are a living proof for the international community that there are hard working Montenegrins who are prepared to defend Serbian interests better than Serbs. If times are compared, the role of the coalition "Together for Yugoslavia" is even sadder than that played by the Podgorica Assembly [declared union of Serbia and Montenegro]. The unfortunates from 1918 could at least justify their act by saying that they were sacrificing Montenegro for the sake of a great Balkan state. How will the current traitors justify their actions? That has nothing to do with politics. That is in itself a defeat of Montenegro.