Serbia declares itself a sovereign nation.

[Swede]

Now that Montenegro left the Yugoslav union,it was not to surprising.



http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=33497

[nealmhughes]

1. Why did they bother?

Everyone else dumped them. I guess they need to get the legal niceities over so that Montenegro can be legally responsible for it portions of the federal debt. Now they both have to print new stationery.

[mortlefaucheur]

2. Huh.

I'm more than a bit behind reading up on Balkan politics.
As is commonly read on DU, Google Is Your Friend (Or Not).

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Geez, didn't they declare this 100 years ago & it started World War I?

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. Full Monte's final fanfare

WHATEVER happens in Germany, Ilija Petkovic’s Serbia & Montenegro look destined to go down in the history books.

This World Cup will be the last major tournament when the team competes under its current name.

On May 21 Montenegro voted for independence from the union with Serbia which has stood since the end of the First World War.
...
What effect it will have on this campaign remains to be seen but keeper Dragoslav Jevric is the only non-Serb left in the 23-man squad.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2002390000-2006250552,00.html

[Skidmore]

5. Does that mean that they won't join in the fabulous "One World"

movement?