Brussels: Europe and the Arabs
A statement issued by the NATO headquarters in Brussels said that Jakov Milatovic, President of the Republic of Montenegro, will visit the headquarters of Al-Haf this afternoon and will meet with the Deputy Secretary-General of the NATO military organization, Mircia Juana. Al-Aswad, one of the countries that joined NATO a few years ago, will also discuss several other files related to the internal issues of the alliance, regional and international developments, preparation for the next NATO summit, defense spending and the tasks that NATO is currently carrying out.
Montenegro became the 29th member of NATO in early June 2017 and was praised by the United States for sticking to the path of joining the Western military alliance despite Russia's opposition. At the time, Russia vowed to respond to Montenegro's "hostile course" and denounced the former Yugoslav republic's "anti-Russian hysteria". The Russian Foreign Ministry said Montenegro bore "full responsibility" after joining EU sanctions against Russia in 2014. .
"In light of the hostile course chosen by the Montenegrin authorities, the Russian side reserves the right to take retaliatory measures on a mutual basis," the ministry added in a statement. In politics, just as in physics, every action has an opposite reaction in the direction.
For its part, the US State Department praised Montenegro, saying it "should be commended ... for asserting its sovereign right to choose its own alliances even in the face of concerted external pressures."

Relations worsened between Russia and Montenegro, which hopes to join the European Union, after it sought to join NATO, which was founded in 1949 as an anti-Russian alliance.