At the meeting of the Committee on International Relations and Emigrants held today, control hearing of the Vice President of the Government and Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration Mr Igor Lukšić on Decision of the Government to join the Joint Statement on Syria was held.

During the session, opinions on the exceptionally important topic were exchanged, different attitudes and positions regarding conflict in Syria were presented as well as regarding Montenegrin joining to the Joint Statement on Syria, adopted on 6 September 2013, at the margins of the meeting G20 in Sank Petersburg. 

With majority of votes cast, the Committee adopted the Report on control hearing with conclusion that position and stances of Montenegro regarding crisis in Syria were in line with its foreign-policy priority, values that Montenegro had been advocating both in home policy and international relations as well as international conferences governing this field and forbidding the use and production of chemical weapon of mass destruction.

In addition, it was emphasised in the conclusion that Montenegro, by signing the Statement on Syria with more than 30 other countries as well as  by supporting British initiative that United Nations experts should approach the locations where the chemical weapon had been used, public support to UN efforts and most important factors of international community to reach complete and reliable picture on events in Syria, and finally by supporting the Council of Europe Resolution 2118, principally and consistently, and in accordance with the loftiest values grounded in "UN" Chapter, had joined members of the world organisation that wanted this difficult and delicate issue to be resolved in a just and permanent manner.

The Committee will send the Report on control hearing to the Parliament.