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00:00:22And that would be all that we have prepared for you today, until our next meeting on the small
00:00:26screens, let's follow each other on our social networks, goodbye!
00:01:07build a campaign for new
00:01:28The global situation is very.
00:01:30difficult at the moment, and the main player who is meddling in
00:01:34this whole situation is the American president Donald
00:01:37Trump did not let his tentacles and his fingers interfere only
00:01:41in the Gulf or Ukraine or Gaza or the West Bank or
00:01:44Israel or threaten Greenland, but
00:01:48he stuck his fingers into the Western Balkans through
00:01:52Milorad Dodik in Bosnia and Herzegovina, through his son-in-law and
00:01:55daughter in Albania in Serbia, but also
00:01:59through a... son also in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but also
00:02:02through some associates in Bosnia and Herzegovina in
00:02:06other countries. However, what is also
00:02:09interesting is that we see certain progress in the
00:02:13Western Balkans, it's not all that black anymore, some things are
00:02:17happening in a positive field when it comes to
00:02:20the European Union. Exactly about that in the next
00:02:23few minutes, I will discuss with the former Montenegrin
00:02:27diplomat, and now university professor. Vesko Garčević
00:02:31who joins me from Boston, professor, welcome to N1
00:02:34program, uh, good day, Sarajevo, thank you for
00:02:38the invitation, I'm glad to be with you today, professor, very often
00:02:41you comment on what is happening in the Balkans, especially
00:02:45you comment on your Montenegro,
00:02:47to what they were 15 you are a former ambassador of Montenegro to several
00:02:51destinations, I won't list them now, and now also a
00:02:54university professor, Montenegro is making exceptionally
00:02:58good progress on... that European
00:03:02scene, so to speak, so I would
00:03:05like to first hear the Montenegrin Prime Minister Milojko
00:03:08Spajić, and then after that
00:03:11to comment on how Montenegro is currently going
00:03:15towards the European Union.
00:03:28count on profit, it will affect last couple of miles will
00:03:31definitely be uh as always very
00:03:34challenging, but we are we are ready for
00:03:37that, we have we have sent most of
00:03:41the chapter member states and we
00:03:44are ready to to be assessed, to take the critics, to
00:03:47be obviously that is in the in in the
00:03:51montenegran interest that we get the best possible
00:03:53reforms, montenegro's rule of law,
00:03:57media landscape and other factors. human rights
00:04:01and so and so forth have immensely improved over the last
00:04:04couple of years, that's not only in the in the rule of
00:04:08law field, economic field as well
00:04:11has performed very well, we've done a lot of throughout
00:04:15the uh process of joining European Union, throughout the process
00:04:18of closing the chapters on competition, state aid and so on and
00:04:22so forth, we have done a lot of structural reforms
00:04:25and some of the dividends are starting to pay off as evidence
00:04:29by the... great report from the
00:04:32progress progress on the on the growth
00:04:35plan, so we intend to continue this way, this
00:04:39is not for us, it's just a
00:04:42milestone that we
00:04:44recognize, but we are our eyes are fully
00:04:48ahead, what's comes next, we are also very
00:04:51optimistic with all the support from the European commission that we
00:04:55had so far, so thank you so much, it
00:04:57is really that... commission has done a lot to
00:05:01us, but also uh the member states, all the 27 member
00:05:05states that eventually have to vote and support
00:05:08all of our uh reform uh uh steps that.
00:05:42"former Montenegrin diplomats, someone who knows how
00:05:45both the negotiation with NATO and how the negotiation with the European Union
00:05:48is going, you assess this
00:05:52progress, today another three chapters are closing
00:05:54and it seems that
00:05:5828 for 28 is not exactly
00:06:00excluded,
00:06:02first I would say that
00:06:05uh that for years it doesn't matter if it's
00:06:082028, 2029" or 30, that at this moment
00:06:12at least for me it doesn't play a key role, that might play a key role
00:06:16for some politician who will probably
00:06:20elections on it, it's important that Montenegro enters the European Union, and
00:06:23a year or two doesn't mean anything, especially for us who have
00:06:26uh practically gone through or been in that process not only in Montenegro but in
00:06:30the region as a whole uh almost since our youth and
00:06:34now we've grown old and we're still waiting for it to happen,
00:06:37therefore uh... that a year or two means nothing to us,
00:06:41we can remember back to 2003, which was so long
00:06:44ago when it was decided in
00:06:48Thessaloniki that the Balkans would be part of the European
00:06:52Union, when I say this, when we focus a little on Montenegro,
00:06:55definitively here, as I would say, two very
00:06:59good things met,
00:07:03one thing is that Montenegro is working exactly or
00:07:06progressing at a certain pace which is positive
00:07:10towards the European Union, but also the climate
00:07:13in the European Union has changed after the invasion
00:07:17of Ukraine and now Montenegro has a tailwind
00:07:20which, when you're sailing somewhere, definitely helps to
00:07:24speed up your sailing towards that goal. In that regard, when
00:07:27I would compare this time with some time in which I participated
00:07:31in those processes, I could say that then it was often
00:07:35sailing against the current, and now it is sailing
00:07:39with the current, meaning towards that goal. Montenegro, as you said, has
00:07:42closed today or will close three new
00:07:45chapters, however, that is not the end and
00:07:48we must be, if I were to speak on behalf of Montenegro, very careful how
00:07:52to proceed, not only because of the need to show your political
00:07:56will to carry it through to the end, but also because of open bilateral
00:07:59issues at this moment with Croatia, I think that is
00:08:03one of the biggest challenges for Montenegro that the government should
00:08:07seriously approach that to avoid. any
00:08:11unwanted reactions or statements by certain ministers who
00:08:14come from some pro-Serbian parties and so on and so forth in order to
00:08:17keep that path open and to find
00:08:21some solution uh uh for with Croatia,
00:08:25I'm not in the government now, I can't say anything, but I think that is definitely
00:08:28one of the biggest challenges in this current
00:08:32upcoming period. And professor, you just
00:08:35mentioned that uh Croatia,
00:08:39you mentioned. "that which comes from
00:08:43Croatia, here is what Grlić Radman, the Minister
00:08:46of Foreign Affairs of Croatia, said on that very topic a few days ago,
00:08:50so let's listen to him, many vessels under the cover of night, for example, a
00:08:53submarine found its way across one state to another state,
00:08:57a military hospital and so on, we have all that recorded, it's about
00:09:00property worth more than 2.7 billion
00:09:04dollars. The glorification of war criminals is incompatible with European
00:09:08values. Ratko Mladić began his bloody path in
00:09:11Croatia, remember Škabrnja, Knin, the attack on
00:09:15Šibenik. That is something that does not contribute to the stability of the region.
00:09:18Look, chapters cannot just be closed like that, because
00:09:22there are some geopolitical reasons, here
00:09:25it must be precisely seen what it is about, and in
00:09:28chapter 14 the real reasons must be established, so go into the essence,
00:09:32into the substance. It is not about closing the chapter, but
00:09:35it should be thoroughly studied. That is our recommendation. and
00:09:39to others, professor, he is talking here
00:09:42about submarines and
00:09:45about military property, about the ship Jadran
00:09:48about some property worth 2.7
00:09:52billion dollars, you participated in those negotiations,
00:09:54you participated in those processes, how much
00:09:58political game is there here, how much
00:10:01reality is there when it comes to Radman's
00:10:04statement? Uh, I must say, I would say, some attitudes are definitely.
00:10:08actively justified by the attitude towards Ratko Mladić
00:10:12and the glorification of crimes and
00:10:16criminals in the
00:10:19way it was done recently by the
00:10:22President of the Parliament. of Montenegro and so on
00:10:25and so forth is definitely incompatible with
00:10:29the idea and desire of Montenegro to enter the European Union.
00:10:32Uh, some other attitudes uh are a
00:10:36product, as I would say, of a
00:10:39political moment, when we were
00:10:42negotiating, I participated in those negotiations with Croatia regarding
00:10:46Prevlaka, at that time these figures were not mentioned at all, nor
00:10:49did anyone tell us, I was a direct participant in that for several
00:10:53years and that... speech was then concluded by
00:10:56signing a temporary agreement on Prevlaka which is still in
00:11:00force today, meaning from 2002 to
00:11:032026, 24 years have passed
00:11:06and that agreement is in force, never has either side of that
00:11:09agreement, meaning Croatia and Montenegro, filed a
00:11:13protest due to the violation of the agreement, and the agreement is
00:11:16deposited with the United Nations, at that time when we were negotiating
00:11:20the situation and dynamics were different, Croatia was supposed to join the European
00:11:23Union and it was supposed to uh uh how can I
00:11:27say uh I would say put
00:11:31its relations with uh neighbors on some, so to speak,
00:11:34healthy foundations and based on those principles
00:11:38we arrived at that solution which was then put on paper
00:11:42and from which both sides benefited uh when I say this,
00:11:45I certainly don't think I need to absolve
00:11:49Montenegro for something that happened in the 90s or if some
00:11:53equipment was taken for some... long known and Croatia has already
00:11:56signaled that to us several times, just like it
00:11:59was equipment from Ćilipi airport that ended up
00:12:02in Podgorica and so on and so forth, that was
00:12:06signaled a long time ago.
00:12:09- The ship Jadran was also a subject of dispute
00:12:12and so on and so forth uh
00:12:16I would say that such situations or such
00:12:19issues would be best resolved through the right channel
00:12:23when we talked about Prevlaka uh...
00:12:25and the resolution or separation on Prevlaka, the demarcation on
00:12:28Prevlaka, we have long during the time of
00:12:32Sanader believed that it should be resolved before
00:12:36the court, because both sides have
00:12:39a different approach to it, that it is ultimately in the
00:12:43spirit of good neighborly relations, uh
00:12:46uh we will see what happens with this, I
00:12:49certainly believe that the ball should be calmed down and that
00:12:52legal solutions should be sought, not political solutions in such
00:12:56situations, on the other hand other countries in the
00:12:59region, I must be free, because now I am an academic, I am no longer uh,
00:13:02I am no longer, they should think about
00:13:05observing this behavior of Croatia, because they too
00:13:09may in five or ten years find themselves in a situation where they are joining the European Union uh
00:13:12then certain problems will be delivered
00:13:16about which one is now silent or not talking about and so on
00:13:20and so forth will be delivered on
00:13:24uh uh... for overpayment, so to speak, uh, at
00:13:28the end I just wanted to say this, that the difference
00:13:31between the Slovenian and Croatian dispute, which was then
00:13:34a problem for Croatia when it was supposed to join the European Union and the Montenegrin and Croatian
00:13:38dispute is precisely that there is a temporary
00:13:41regime here, which is that uh that regime is actually
00:13:45canonized, so to speak, by the very fact that the two sides agreed
00:13:48on it, that it is deposited with the United Nations
00:13:52and that the creation of that regime actually. "finished
00:13:55the UN mission on Prevlaka, that is a big difference
00:13:59between these two from a legal and if we want to look at it from an international legal
00:14:03perspective, so you practically
00:14:06say, let's play it bilaterally
00:14:09neighborly, so that it doesn't become a problem for us when we go towards
00:14:13the European Union, uh, naturally we need to
00:14:17do some things, we did some things wrong and many things can be
00:14:21corrected very easily, and Serbs, Montenegro has..."
00:14:25made a few wrong moves, I mean this government
00:14:28now, I have now stated why, uh, in
00:14:32relation to the past and in relation to what happened in Bosnia and Herzegovina,
00:14:36certain members of the government, I'm not saying that all who sit there are the same, that
00:14:40is also one, one perhaps a challenge, an internal challenge of
00:14:43Montenegro itself, that in this government sit people who sincerely advocate
00:14:46European integration, people who have suddenly changed for
00:14:50various reasons and whom I personally do not trust, because they would
00:14:54have to prove themselves for a long time to prove that they have
00:14:57truly changed, and statements like the statements about Ratko Mladić
00:15:01show that those changes were not uh that those
00:15:04changes are only cosmetic, meaning there are various things that we can
00:15:08agree on or that we can accept, I am not going into
00:15:11whether it is two billion or I don't know how much property,
00:15:14but definitely there is some property in Montenegro and that should be
00:15:18discussed, a commission can be set up to list that.
00:15:21and implement it and so on and so forth, meaning there are ways if
00:15:25countries want to solve these problems to solve it
00:15:29in bilateral agreements, there are ways similar to this
00:15:32Jadran ship. where countries used that ship jointly
00:15:36and so on and so forth, there are ways like Denmark and Norway solved
00:15:39the problem about their uh about
00:15:43the demarcation at sea the use
00:15:46of those, how shall I say, gas fields
00:15:50by sharing the profit and so on and so forth, meaning where there are neighbors
00:15:52who want to agree there is
00:15:56an agreement professor when we talk
00:16:00about the wider region of the Western Balkans at this... moment
00:16:03almost nothing is working when we look
00:16:07at the overall situation, relations, as we just talked about, between Zagreb and
00:16:10Podgorica are not very good, between Belgrade and
00:16:14Podgorica are not good, there is no dialogue between Belgrade
00:16:17and Priština, Sarajevo and Belgrade in very bad
00:16:21relations, part of Sarajevo and
00:16:24Zagreb are in lukewarm
00:16:27relations, it seems that Sarajevo and Podgorica currently have
00:16:30the fewest problems, somehow they... don't argue about anything,
00:16:34but we can, precisely on the basis of what we just
00:16:37talked about, somehow make that change
00:16:41and start that Balkan to move
00:16:44towards the Union, because now Marta Kos is talking about two
00:16:48countries that have moved far ahead towards the European Union, Albania and
00:16:51Montenegro, and that already in two or three years
00:16:55we can expect that Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Kosovo could
00:16:59remain, so to speak, that kind of plug that would be...
00:17:02outside both NATO and the European Union,
00:17:05many things are at play here, and the European Union bears
00:17:09responsibility as well, meaning it's not only our responsibility who are here in
00:17:12the Balkans, because we are what we are and we were like that before,
00:17:16I hope we have changed for the better, but as far as I can see, you yourself
00:17:20mentioned what you mentioned, the experience from the past
00:17:24and the 90s, practically as if it has been
00:17:27forgotten, uh and we have the same patterns in
00:17:30the behavior of the rhetoric
00:17:33of certain leaders in the region uh which
00:17:37were actually the basis of what led to the breakup
00:17:41of Yugoslavia and the genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina and so on
00:17:45and so forth, meaning those of us who remember can easily recognize that,
00:17:48but I must also say that many things that the
00:17:52European Union started here at the beginning of the 21st century
00:17:56uh institutions or forms of
00:17:59cooperation in the region that were established then uh
00:18:02they are uh... in crisis, just as global
00:18:06uh, multilateralism and cooperation at a
00:18:09global level are in crisis, uh, meaning, look at those
00:18:12institutions, forms of cooperation that were then various,
00:18:14various, various types of regional integration and so on, they
00:18:18are now more or less on paper, they exist,
00:18:21but uh, their content compared
00:18:25years ago is very questionable, that opens up space for all those
00:18:28who uh implement different policies, you mentioned.
00:18:31"You mentioned Serbia and
00:18:35the problem with Montenegro, in fact Serbia has a problem with almost all
00:18:39its neighbors uh around itself uh this
00:18:43more so speaks about those who are in power in Belgrade, again
00:18:46or about the continuity of a certain kind of policy which had a brief
00:18:49period of questioning which lasted uh only a few
00:18:53years and then actually
00:18:57continued the policies we saw from the late '90s
00:19:00throughout the 2000s. Montenegro, on the
00:19:03other hand, has no problems with other neighbors except, as you yourself
00:19:07said, with Serbia and now this, I wouldn't call it
00:19:11Prozen with Croatia, it's just an open question because in other
00:19:14issues we are not in in some, so to speak,
00:19:18fundamental conflicts or
00:19:21differences uh uh many
00:19:24things need to be changed uh I hope the European Union will continue
00:19:28the accession process seriously uh uh
00:19:31the process of opening
00:19:34doors for the accession of Bosnia and Herzegovina and other countries, because that is the only
00:19:37way. Professor, you spoke about those
00:19:41other actors, and now we've seen a situation where
00:19:45we have interference from one team, that
00:19:48team is Donald Trump's team.
00:19:52We saw that his associates are also interfering,
00:19:55in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in Albania,
00:19:58in Montenegro, in Serbia. We also saw
00:20:01"in the past few
00:20:04days with Donald Trump that we also saw the daughter of his chief of staff
00:20:08who took a picture with a long
00:20:12weapon in Bosnia and Herzegovina, how do you, as
00:20:15someone who uh has long worked
00:20:18in the United States, but also knows the Balkans,
00:20:21view this situation, how dangerous can Trump's
00:20:24fueling of those uh..."
00:20:28players who don't always have the best intentions when it comes to
00:20:31the Balkans, it can be very dangerous, it can be
00:20:34dangerous for two reasons, and this, I wouldn't call it dangerous, but
00:20:37I would call it destabilizing for
00:20:41the Balkans, which can slow down other processes, the first
00:20:43thing is that with Trump
00:20:47uh a kind of synergy in the approach to
00:20:50the Balkans between the United States and the European Union disappears, from that
00:20:532001 or 2002 or from the end of the war
00:20:56and the fall of Milošević in the
00:20:59Thessaloniki agenda that they told us, actually there is a
00:21:03continuity of cooperation between the European Union
00:21:05and the United States when the Balkans are concerned in... in which there is
00:21:08a division of roles, where the European Union
00:21:12plays a leading role, and the United States often supports, except for
00:21:15a few issues they consider urgent when they need to
00:21:19intervene directly, which was Bosnia or Kosovo, now that policy
00:21:22has been abandoned, meaning that continuity no longer
00:21:25exists, now a different
00:21:29approach is being introduced which is based exclusively on
00:21:33uh in that regard it can be similar and
00:21:36understandable for many leaders of the Balkans. personal uh, your personal, your personal
00:21:40interest, the interests of your
00:21:42family or group of people you are
00:21:46surrounded by, are actually much more important than the strategic interests
00:21:49of your country, where profit uh
00:21:52outweighs everything else and I would add Greece here, you have now mentioned Greece, Bulgaria,
00:21:56the Wall Street Journal recently wrote about that, recently there was
00:22:00writing about a project in Bosnia and Herzegovina and so on, global
00:22:03media follow that because it's about projects that are worth.
00:22:07several billion dollars, and
00:22:11and and open the door for for corruption, meaning
00:22:14that's one thing, another thing is that, as I said
00:22:17earlier, it opens space for those forces and those
00:22:21people who we know haven't had support from the
00:22:25United States until now, it was unimaginable that Dodik or some
00:22:28people in Belgrade, nationalists, extreme
00:22:32nationalists uh who nurture
00:22:36xenophobic pro-fascist policies and so. so forth would be
00:22:39supported by by
00:22:42America, it doesn't matter if they are some marginal, non-marginal
00:22:46influential or non-influential senators whom they meet
00:22:49when they travel to America, whether they are some, so
00:22:52to speak, peculiar personalities in their views,
00:22:56but they are senators, they are also part of American politics, part
00:23:00of the American milieu and in that regard uh
00:23:04meeting with them or the possibility of meeting
00:23:07with them actually represents an exception that did not exist before, in that
00:23:11regard these forces in the Balkans consider themselves as if
00:23:15they are supported and are starting to be louder, because suddenly
00:23:18it's not only Russia that can stand behind them, but
00:23:22suddenly it can also be America, however long this
00:23:26policy lasts, which is currently in
00:23:29Washington. And professor, when we talk
00:23:33about Washington, uh,
00:23:37very soon we expect something. that is
00:23:40uh called midterms, i.e. elections in the middle of the term. At
00:23:44this moment, when we look at the congressional estimates, here are some
00:23:47of them right on our screen which say that Democrats
00:23:50have a 65% chance of winning the Senate and that
00:23:54they have even a 93% chance of winning
00:23:58the House of Representatives. Can this very
00:24:01change that we see, which is being announced, both in terms of the Senate and
00:24:05in terms of the House of Representatives, be the
00:24:09key factor in stopping these for
00:24:12whom you say they are now becoming louder when it comes to
00:24:16both Milorad Dodik and some other people
00:24:20in the Western Balkans? That will
00:24:23certainly, first we need to see what will happen and we need to see how
00:24:26President Trump will react, because I wouldn't rule out
00:24:30internal destabilization, I mean, I don't think I'm
00:24:33some kind of pessimist, an ultimate pessimist, but there were some
00:24:36announcements that he could again
00:24:40uh uh question the elections if
00:24:43the elections are negative for him and that he is trying
00:24:46to mobilize certain segments of American society to
00:24:50protest. My personal opinion is that considering
00:24:54the initial experience in this case and the current
00:24:57quiet uh uh how can I say redistribution within
00:25:00the Republican party uh I don't know what all could
00:25:04be the realization of that but uh
00:25:06definitely uh these... forces
00:25:08you mentioned in the Balkans that we talked about would be
00:25:12weakened because uh then it would
00:25:15come, if uh Democrats
00:25:18won the Senate, for the House of Representatives it is certainly considered
00:25:22that they will win, even Republicans no longer question that in their latest
00:25:24statements, they no longer question that at all, but if they
00:25:28take 52 seats that are now being talked about, 51 is enough
00:25:31but now it's about 52 even 53 seats in the
00:25:35Senate, that would... be such a strong turnaround, practically
00:25:39what they would call it a blue surge or
00:25:43some big wave, a blue wave that will
00:25:47sweep everything away, uh, that would put Trump. "in a very
00:25:50difficult situation because with a majority in
00:25:54the Senate they could uh exert constant
00:25:57pressure on him, which would politically weaken him
00:26:01and actually turn America towards
00:26:04internal uh internal issues
00:26:07uh that would weaken or affect American
00:26:11presence uh abroad including the Balkans uh and these forces that we
00:26:15have
00:26:19uh time bi oslabilo ili uticalo na američko
00:26:22prisustvo uh vani uključujući Balkan
00:26:25they would not be able to count anymore
00:26:29on such support as they have supported until now or..." "if that
00:26:33support was even sent, it would be
00:26:36clear that it is something that lives short,
00:26:39because the time of that administration is definitely
00:26:42questionable and they have big problems at home
00:26:46and he will be a so-called lamduck, a president who
00:26:49actually limps and uh who
00:26:52cannot have full political power. Now one more
00:26:55question for the end, professor, this is more of a human question,
00:26:59how do Americans today live with..." these
00:27:03incredible prices, especially at gas stations,
00:27:06I know how important it is for Americans to have
00:27:09a full tank, but now a gallon costs
00:27:136 dollars, Donald Trump did not expect that, now
00:27:16through Putin he is trying to solve that price, but how much does
00:27:20that change the way Americans look
00:27:24at politics today and is it more important for them
00:27:27to think about what they will put on the table
00:27:31for their family tonight than what is happening
00:27:34in the Gulf or Ukraine or anywhere else
00:27:38in the world at this moment? First,
00:27:41President Trump came to the head of America promising
00:27:44that there would be no American wars or involvement
00:27:48of America in world events, and he is now the president who
00:27:51has been most involved in the last 20 something
00:27:54years, if we exclude, for example, our
00:27:58wars in the 90s and the intervention of the then
00:28:01then presidents in the early 90s,
00:28:05early 90s, I apologize, so first he
00:28:09betrayed those expectations, as a consequence of those
00:28:12of that and all, no, this is not a show
00:28:16about that, those wars actually and everything he has done so far
00:28:19uh, at least as far as the views of
00:28:22experts are concerned, he actually did not do it
00:28:26to show American power, but everything he did actually
00:28:29contributed to people realizing...
00:28:33the limits of that American power, whether it is Iran, whether it is Gaza, whether
00:28:37it is Ukraine, look now how Zelensky reacts,
00:28:40remember how it was the first time in the Oval Office, look
00:28:44how Canada reacts now, tariffs are no
00:28:47longer a bogeyman and so on, so he has shown
00:28:50everywhere the limitation of power, not
00:28:53in the end of America again proud or how shall
00:28:57we say great America again came to a situation where
00:29:00it begs Russia for help so that it would give it
00:29:04that, so that it would give it - this diesel, yes, that is a very
00:29:08important question for Americans, it is important
00:29:10because it directly affects the economy of every
00:29:14household, but it is important because it affects
00:29:17farmers in the Midwest, that is Trump's voting
00:29:20base, and because they use diesel
00:29:24and these huge price increases actually
00:29:27affect them not being able to
00:29:31how they will... express their dissatisfaction
00:29:34by voting exactly that, if you now follow these developments in
00:29:38the Midwest, surprising support for candidates
00:29:41coming from Democrats in states
00:29:45where Republicans have continuously won,
00:29:49I don't know and so on, actually points
00:29:52to the depth of the problems that Republicans
00:29:55are facing at this moment, all
00:29:57thanks to Trump who is the president
00:30:00of the country. Professor, thank you for this
00:30:04conversation, thank you for this comprehensive analysis of
00:30:08everything we have seen not only in the
00:30:11Western Balkans, but also when it comes to the international
00:30:14community. Thank you for the invitation, it was a pleasure.
00:30:44With years, movement gets a different meaning, it's no longer
00:30:47about speed, but freedom, freedom to
00:30:50move without thinking, enjoying every step,
00:30:54every moment. Artro support, advanced complex for
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