Parliament of Montenegro ratified the law on the country's accession to NATO. For this decision, 46 deputies out of 81 voted. And in the hall were exactly 46 parliamentarians, and there were no representatives of the opposition, said on Friday, April 28, RIA Novosti,.

President Filip Vujanovic and former Prime Minister and ex-head of state Milo Djukanovic, who attended the meeting, applauded the deputies.

Before the voting began with a fiery speech, the acting chairman of the government Dusko Markovic, who explained why Montenegro should join the North Atlantic alliance. In his view, membership in the bloc will provide the country with long-term stability and economic development, as well as "a favorable wind for the implementation of reforms towards the European Union and a starting point for strengthening the stability of our country, economy and society".

The document was supported by members of the ruling Democratic Party of Socialists and a number of small parties - supporters of integration into NATO.

Meanwhile, the main opposition force of the country, the Democratic Front did not participate in the voting. His representatives held a protest in Cetinje (namely, in this cultural capital of Montenegro, not in the official capital of Podgorica), where they demanded to decide the fate of joining the Alliance not in parliament, but in a nationwide referendum. Opponents of the annexation burned the flag of NATO and promised to achieve early elections to the Assembly, to come to power and to cancel today's decision.

Activists of the DF, as reported by the RTCG portal, intend to organize protests in the near future throughout the country and urge the rest of the opposition to join them.

The Russian Foreign Ministry has already said that Moscow reserves the right to take measures aimed at protecting Russia's interests and national security after Montenegro's entry into NATO.

"It is with deep regret that we must note that the current leadership of the country and its Western patrons did not heed the voice of reason and conscience. The adoption of fundamental acts affecting the fundamental issues of the security of the state, through the voting of individual deputies on the basis of an amalgamated formal majority without taking into account the opinion of the people of the country, is a demonstrative act of trampling all democratic norms and principles, "reads the special comments of the Foreign Ministry.

As noted in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, those who voted in the Assembly for membership in the Alliance under the pretext of an imaginary Russian threat "take responsibility for the consequences of implementing the plans of external forces seeking to deepen the dividing lines existing in Europe and the Balkans, drive a wedge into Deep historical traditions, friendly relations of Montenegrins with Serbs and Russians ".

In the diplomacy, special attention was paid to the words of Markovich, spoken today before the vote on the victims of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, including Montenegrins, including children. "We will not forget that Montenegro was then, despite its will, dragged into the tragic conflict between Serbia and NATO forces," the head of the Cabinet of Ministers.

"Shameful episodes of unlawful", the Russian Foreign Ministry emphasizes, the bombings in 1999. In the center of Europe, "hypocritically interpreted in such a way that it is, they say, the fault of Serbia, in conflict with the alliance".

The Russian department noted that the Montenegrin MPs' decision to join NATO "ignored the will of almost half of the country's population opposing the" NATO priority "in foreign policy". In Moscow they ask themselves what kind of cynicism they need to have "without a shadow of embarrassment to say that for such a decision there is no need to clarify the opinion of the people, as the president of Montenegro, Filip Vujanovich,.

Recall, at the end of March this year, the US Senate approved the adoption of NATO in this Balkan country.