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Excerpt from report by Montenegrin Mina news agency

Podgorica, 28 September: Montenegro has nothing to brag about on the World Day of Free Access to Information, because the respect for this human right is far from the European standard, the Network for the Affirmation of Non-Governmental Sector (MANS) stated today.

7 April 2009

On 1 April 2009, at the opening session of the International Seminar on Access to Information, the Brazilian Minister of Internal Affairs, Dilma Rousseff, announced that a draft law on the right to information would be sent to Congress by the end of April. Michel Temer, President of the Chamber of Deputies, and Gilmar Mendes, President of the Supreme Court, who participated in the opening debate, also supported the idea of adopting right to information legislation.

13 April 2009

According to the evaluation achieved by "Acces-info" Center in the first quarter of year 2009, the number of occurrences of access to information limitation for the citizens and journalists has increased, including during the period of parliamentary elections. The new Law on State Secret, entered recently into force, contains serious premises likely to further affect the access to information. Although the stringent need for adjusting a series of normative acts to the Law on Access to Information and constitutional norms was repeatedly noted, this is being unjustified put off, the legislative drawbacks negatively influencing the active informing of the public.