Montenegrin prime minister hold talks in Hungary – UPDATE
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Budapest, February 24 (MTI) – Montenegro’s place is in the European Union and the country is prepared to become a member of the bloc, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said after talks with his Montenegrin counterpart in Budapest on Friday.
“If we weren’t tied down and held back by our internal problems in the EU, Montenegro should be in the anti-chamber of, or just one step away from full-fledged membership,” Orban said at a joint press conference with Dusko Markovic. Montenegro’s early accession to the EU would be “fair, consistent, and desirable,” he added.
Concerning NATO, he noted that only four more NATO member states needed to ratify Montenegro’s accession to the military alliance.
Orbán called his talks “friendly and successful” and said that bilateral relations were not burdened with open issues. He said that Hungarian projects in Montenegro were prosperous, and the country would be a key destination for Hungarian investments in the Balkans in the next decade.