Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic met Tuesday with Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Zeljko Komsic. The Prime Minister underlined that the territorial integrity and sovereignty of BiH was a key condition for progress in the Western Balkans. Continuation of a dynamic and proactive policy in the region is Montenegro’s foreign policy priority... More

During the power lunch hosted by Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic in honor of Croatian Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor, as part of her official visit to Montenegro, the two officials agreed to establish a Working Group regulating cross-border movement between the two countries. The mission of this body, comprising representatives of Montenegrin and Croatian foreign and interior ministries, is to enable a special regime for the movement of people and goods in the border areas of Boka and Konavli... More

Audio recording: Statement by Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Belgium Yves Leterme following his meeting with Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic... More

Here you can watch a video (in Italian and Montenegin) of the press conference between Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, taking place in Rome, where they signed a Strategic Cooperation Agreement between Montenegro and Italy... More

Montenegro highly appreciates the United Kingdom’s support for the integration of the Western Balkans into the European Union and NATO, Prime Minister Djukanovic said.

The Prime Minister and Ambassador Knight-Sands discussed Montenegro’s national priorities, including the improvement of the quality of life internally and EU and NATO integration externally... More

Audio file: Statement of Prime Minister of Montenegro Milo Djukanovic after meeting Secretary Hilary Clinton.
PRIME MINISTER DJUKANOVIC (via interpreter) Ladies and gentlemen, before I begin, I would like to thank Secretary of State Clinton for the overall support that the U.S. has given Montenegro towards its European and Atlantic integration... More

Audio file: Secretary Clinton Meets With Montenegrin Prime Minister in the Department's Treaty Room.
SECRETARY CLINTON: It’s a great pleasure to welcome the prime minister. We consider our partnership with Montenegro to be very strong, and we look forward to it becoming even more important in the future... More

Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic made his first official visit to the Holy See on Monday, on which occasion he was granted an audience with Pope Benedict XVI.

The Prime Minister had separate talks with Vatican’s State Secretary Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone and Secretary for Relations with States of the Holy See Dominique Mamberti. The talks in Vatican were also attended by Montenegrin Minister of Foreign Affairs Milan Rocen... More

Audio recording: Statement by NATO Secretary General Anders Rasmussen following his meeting with Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic… More

Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic met Monday with UNICEF’s Regional Director for Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States Steven Allen. The Prime Minister thanked Mr Allen for UNICEF’s initiative and successful projects in Montenegro... More

Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic has met with Albanian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ilir Meta, as part of Mr Meta’s two-day visit to Montenegro. Both sides have expressed satisfaction with Montenegrin-Albanian relations in general which, apart from being characterized by good political cooperation, will be additionally reinforced by today’s signing of three agreements between the two countries’ foreign ministries and the forthcoming signing of a cultural cooperation agreement... More

Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic met Wednesday, 14 October, with Head of the European Commission’s Delegation to Montenegro Leopold Maurer, who presented him with the Commission’s 2009 Progress Report for Montenegro.
Ambassador Maurer noted that Montenegro had made good progress, the Interim Agreement on trade and trade-related matters was being fully implemented, adequate measures were being taken to mitigate the impact of the global crisis and international cooperation was excellent. He added, however, that further improvements were expected in certain areas, including the fight against corruption and organized crime and strengthening of administrative capacities... More

Montenegro's Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic came to international prominence as something of a political wunderkind during the 1990s, when he served three consecutive terms as prime minister. His kaleidoscopic political career has kept him at the center of Montenegrin events for nearly two decades -- from the breakup of the former Yugoslavia through Montenegro's 2006 referendum on independence and its current bid for membership of the European Union... More  download

Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic and US Deputy Secretary of State James B. Steinberg met in New York, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, on Wednesday. They shared views on Montenegro’s progress in the process of European and Euro-Atlantic integration and current developments in the region... More

Dear friends,

Addressing the effects of climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing mankind. Having in mind that the commitment to build a model enabling the development of Montenegro as an ecological state is enshrined in our Constitution, addressing the challenges of climate change and preserving biological diversity are our priority areas... More

Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic met Tuesday with outgoing Austrian Ambassador to Montenegro Florian Raunig. The Prime Minister thanked Mr Raunig for his successful engagement in a four-year mission, during which the two countries developed broad cooperation. The Prime Minister also underlined Ambassador Raunig’s personal contribution in what was one of the most important periods in Montenegro’s history, adding that he considered as particularly important that the Austrian Government’s focus on investment in Montenegro did not end with the inflow of Austrian private investments in the country. In addition, Mr Djukanovic expressed satisfaction that Austrian investors had extended their interest in Montenegro from infrastructure to tourism, regardless of the global recession... More

Audio recording: Statement by NATO Secretary General General Japp de Hoop Scheffer following his meeting Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic... More

Audio recording: Statement by Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union (EU High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy) Javier Solana following his meeting with Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic... More

Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic met today with Michael Haltzel, a Senior Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations of Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. Mr Haltzel is a long-standing foreign policy advisor to US Vice President Joseph Biden.

Prime Minister Djukanovic introduced his guest to the new government’s top priorities, underlining in particular Euro-Atlantic and European integration on the one hand, and the mitigation of the impacts of the global economic crisis on Montenegro’s economy, on the other.

He emphasized that the increased attention the new US administration was focusing on the Western Balkans was extremely important for the region as a whole... More

Mr. President of the State,
Mr. President of the Parliament,
Distinguished Chair,
Honourable Members of Parliament,

A little more than a year ago in this high chamber I presented strategic goals and priority tasks of the Government whose mandate has been cut short due to the early Parliamentary election of 29 March. Strategic goals are unchanged and they remain so both for the new and for future governments – full integration in the EU and NATO. Regrettably, the circumstances have changed. Taking over at the helm of the Government on 28 February 2008 I said here I did so in the most favourable political and economic environment for the young Montenegrin State. No one at the time imagined that the world would today be faced with a financial and economic crisis of such proportions, whose depth and duration are unpredictable. Its fallout has not bypassed Montenegro, either... More

Montenegrin media space was over the past few days contaminated by the many-times-rehashed science fiction stories about cigarette smuggling and Milo Djukanovic’s illegally acquired wealth. This is just another in a series of lies with the same objective – discrediting myself and members of my family. And unlike the previous ones, more stupid, given that it overlooks previous denials and even final judgements on actions that I brought in regard of similar falsehoods... More

Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic met Wednesday evening with Serbian President Boris Tadic, who will attend the Summit of Southeast European Heads of State in Cetinje.

The talks focused no further development of cooperation between Montenegro and Serbia, as well as overall relations in the region, notably in the context of European integration of the Western Balkan countries... More

Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic met Thursday with Head of the Western Balkans Directorate at DG Enlargement Pierre Mirel and his associates. Djukanovic stated that Montenegro could not have achieved such strong progress in terms of European integration over the past period, if it had not been for the cooperation and support of the European Commission and its office in Podgorica... More

Prime Minister Djukanovic said that the partnership and friendship with the United States were extremely important to Montenegro, adding that the new US administration’s increased focus on the Western Balkans was vital for the region’s and Montenegro’s Euro-Atlantic integration. He underlined that stability was a key issue in the Western Balkans, since the countries of the region did not have the required self-regulatory instruments for its maintenance. “I, therefore, see the future of all countries of the region in Euro-Atlantic integration,” the Prime Minister said. He thanked the US government for the support provided to Montenegro on its path to full NATO membership... More

The ruling coalition’s convincing general election victory has enabled it to form a new government in the near future. Its chief priority will be to maintain stability at the time of the global crisis and undertake the necessary preparations for the resumption of vibrant economic growth once the crisis has passed, which will help move towards Montenegro’s European and Euro-Atlantic goals, the Prime Minister said at his meeting with Dutch Ambassador to Montenegro Ron van Dartel... More

Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic paying a visit to the US Navy frigate “USS Klakring FFG 42“, which will be staying in the Port of Bar for several days... More

Both sides expressed satisfaction with the Committee’s contribution to the overall cooperation between the two friendly countries. In addition, they praised the intensity of political contacts and the readiness of Montenegrin and Russian governments to enhance economic and all-round cooperation and to search together for means of preventive action and more efficient countering of the implications of the global economic and financial crisis in matters of mutual interest... More

Video recording: Press Statements by Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic and EU Commissioner Olli Rehn.

Here you can download photos from the press conference... More

Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic met Friday with His Royal Highness Prince Andrew Albert Christian Edward the Duke of York, who was paying an official visit to Montenegro on the occasion of the inauguration of the UK Embassy in Podgorica. Prime Minister Djukanovic said that Montenegro was very proud of the British Government’s cooperation and support in the process of its democratic reform and European and Euro-Atlantic integration... More

The Prime Minister expressed his satisfaction with the Government’s cooperation with UNHCR, particularly during the crisis years in the Western Balkans, adding that Montenegro would not have been able to answer the challenges of the huge influx of refugees and displaced persons without the help of and good cooperation with the UNHCR. Despite the effects of the global crisis, the Government of Montenegro will maintain a responsible approach to dealing with this problem in the coming period, stressed Prime Minister Djukanovic... More