SLOVENIA ON FRIDAY OPENED AN EMBASSY IN MONTENEGRO _ THE FIRST COUNTRY TO DO SO SINCE THE TINY NATION SPLIT FROM A UNION WITH SERBIA EARLY THIS MONTH, ACCORDING TO AP. THE OPENING CEREMONY WAS HELD IN THE MONTENEGRIN CAPITAL, PODGORICA, AND ATTENDED BY SLOVENIA'S FOREIGN MINISTER DIMITRIJ RUPEL AND HIS MONTENEGRIN COUNTERPART, MIODRAG VLAHOVIC. «THE NEW MONTENEGRIN STATE IS CHEERFUL NEWS IN EUROPE,» RUPEL SAID. «MONTENEGRO WILL ALWAYS HAVE A PARTNER IN SLOVENIA.» VLAHOVIC ADDED THAT THE FACT THAT SLOVENIA IS THE FIRST TO OPEN ITS EMBASSY IN NEWLY INDEPENDENT MONTENEGRO «BEARS HUGE SYMBOLISM.»
