New President Takes Office in Montenegro

AP Online | June 14, 2003 | Copyright

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Dateline: CETINJE, Serbia-Montenegro [image omitted]

A pro-independence leader was sworn in as president of Montenegro Friday, pledging to lead it to a complete break with Serbia.

Filip Vujanovic was elected in May after two attempts, in December and February, were invalidated because fewer than the required 50 percent voted. Montenegro then dropped the minimum turnout law.

Vujanovic began his presidency, taking the oath at Cetinje, a mountain town that was Montenegro's medieval seat, 12 miles southwest of today' s capital, Podgorica.

"Much remains to be done ... to ...

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