REACTION REGARDING THE STATEMENT MADE BY THE SECRETARY OF THE CAPITAL CITY, MS SLAVKA MARAŠ, ON OPEN LETTER OF ASSOCIATION OF YOUTH WITH DISABILITIES OF MONTENEGRO

The Association did not state any accusations, but has informed the general public, as well as relevant Montenegrin and international institutions in Montenegro, on how much court decisions and human rights are observed, and how the management of the capital of Montenegro, behaves in arrogant manner.

Inaccurate and tendentious assertion made by the Secretary of the Parliament of the capital city Podgorica that the Association of the Youth with Disabilities of Montenegro has previously prepared responses on any situation, for several reasons. First and foremost,  we do not have the ability to predict events. Otherwise we would always be one step ahead of the potentate. Unfortunately we are not, because management of the capital city has the whole system behind them, and we and several individuals and NGOs who support fight forMontenegrothat respects the rights of persons with disabilities, and more importantly,Montenegrowhere the rule of law is more important than the reign ruled by such despots in Podgorica.

We emphasize that we stand behind everything we said in an open letter that we started to write on July 19, 2010 at 10:50 a.m., which was emailed and sent to more than 4,000 addresses.

Later attempts to correct the statement are only on the detriment of the Secretary, who lacks arguments to correct her mistake. To accuse someone for political set up is very easy, but to prove something like that is certainly not. Although we do not understand how one who is a member of the most powerful political party in Podgorica can be planted politically, if one is not active in political life of a community? Furthermore, we wander what would be our interest to plant something to anyone?

For the umpteenth time, we repeat that our only interest is to fight against injustice done to one person with disabilities, and thus the overall population of people with disabilities.

Declaring that the court order is only binding, but without insight into the reasoning is nonsense. We emphasize that in the Association, there are people with elementary knowledge of legal system, regarding of their profession, who would be happy to explain the Secretary what is stated in court decision, and which she finds unclear, as well as which are the integral parts of the order, and how court ruling and explanation are mutually connected.

The disposition and explanation of the verdict there are no contradictions; therefore this interpretation made by a lawyer is very worrying. The court decision clearly stated, as can be seed by entire professional and lay public, that Marijana should return to her work post, where she worked before December 10, 2008, at address Njegoševa 13, because the plaintiff’s request was related to those premises, and the court decides within the limits of the lawsuit, therefore the final court decision is related to those premises.

Other statements made by Ms Maraš do not deserve any comments. In the future we shall not make comments on such and similar allegations, because that kind of behaviour only takes attention from the execution of the final judgements.

Finally, we would like to emphasize that the Association of youth with disabilities will do everything to implement the final court decision.

Respectfully,

TEAM OF THE ASSOCIATION OF THE YOUTH WITH DISABILITIES OF MONTENEGRO