Serbia did not send a protest note to Montenegro over an opinion piece by author Andrej Nikolaidis, advisor to the Montenegrin parliament speaker, on the 20th anniversary of the inception of Republika Srpska, BETA learned at the Serbian embassy in Podgorica.

Montenegrin Foreign Minister Milan Rocen told reporters that "no demarche has arrived from Serbia" about Nikolaidis' piece.

In a Jan. 11 article at the Analitika website (portalanalitika.me) titled "What Is Left of Greater Serbia," Montenegrin speaker's advisor wrote that "it would have been a civilizational step forward if dynamite and rifles had been brought into the room where the 20th anniversary of Republika Srpska was recently celebrated."

Some media in the Montenegrin capital said Belgrade would send a demarche to Podgorica, while Nikolaidis' piece was condemned by the Movement for Change and some proSerb parties, seeking accountability by the parliamentary speaker's advisor.

The Movement for Change said earlier that Nikolaidis was "calling for terrorism" and announced it would seek his dismissal.