Director of the Centre for Transition, Nebojsa Medojevic, requested today from political leader of the Liberal Alliance Miodrag Zivkovic and president of Social-democratic Party Zarko Rakcevic to influence Montenegrin Government in order to prevent further susceptibility to foreign influence in management of economic policy. In his open letter, he invited Zivkovic and Rakcevic to stop “disquieting practice of the Government of Montenegro, where it is susceptible to various foreign pressures and influences in management of economic policy”. Medojevic reminded that, in line with Montenegrin Constitution, the Government independently manages internal and foreign policy and that it is responsible to it to Montenegrin Parliament. “When Montenegro is independent and sovereign state, it will be of immeasurable importance that state institutions function independently and without foreign interference. In its rich state history, Montenegro and its authorities knew, in majority of cases, to refuse pressures from abroad and did not allow its internal issues to be decided outside its borders and legal and legitimate institutions,” said Medojevic. He said that lately, the Government was frequently making decisions and prepared specific documents “not on the basis of political decisions of the parties forming the government, or on the basis of the opinion and attitudes of the expert public, but on the basis” as he said “of foreign pressures that are getting more and more uncouth and ruthless,” said Medojevic. Medojevic said that proposals of the law on public acquisitions, law on companies and law on securities were directed to the Government for passing in the form of ultimatum. “That is happening despite the fact that these texts do not satisfy elementary conditions necessary for them to be taken into serious consideration, let alone be the issue of discussion of members of the Parliament,” added Medojevic. He is of the opinion that foreign consultants in cooperation with “financial oligarchies in Montenegro” managed privatization policy in Montenegro and that the Council for privatization “transformed into organ for verification of decisions and instructions made somewhere else”. Medojevic emphasizes that Government’s decisions are changed by will and directives of privatization funds, specifying that the buyer of the hotel “Maestral” requests form Government certain conditions regarding legal solutions for games of chance, which are yet to be prepared and “conditions payments with some, publicly yet unknown, stipulations”. “Bearing in mind the fact that the Government of Montenegro cannot make such unreasonable compliances without your ‘blessing’ I am using this opportunity to invite you to prevent transformation of Montenegro into a colony and laboratory of various third-class foreign experts, world charlatans, criminals, and local new ‘businessmen’”, said Medojevic to Rakcevic and Zivkovic, emphasizing that they could make the first step on August 7, by refusing the proposal of the law on public acquisitions, which “by either its form or content does not deserve to be an issue for discussion in Montenegrin Parliament”.