'Who is Zoran Korac and his connection to Montenegro's top officials?'

Few people know about Zoran Korac in Montenegro, although he was born in Bjelopol. He is mostly talked about by those familiar with political labyrinths, often attributing supernatural abilities to him. After all, he makes up the Montenegrin government, they say. Depending on (semi-)information or political leanings, Korac is actually Vucic's secret envoy to Montenegro, but at the same time he is also considered an "American man," especially close to Gabriel Escobar.

Vucic is mostly wisely silent at this time while a succession of influential personalities from Montenegrin governance take place at his table in a hotel. "I am a one-man government. I don't have a superior, I don't have someone who can give me some instruction,'''someone can ask me for something, but for me to do it, I have to be convinced that it is the right thing to do. Am I doing Vucic's will? In what property and why? What is Vucic's customer for me?", Zoran Korac responds to such statements, emphasizing that he does not have much influence over the Serbian president.

The Vesti interview is practically his first appearance in the public space, at least in this way. He talks quite openly about meetings with top officials from Montenegro, Serbia, the region, and from around the world, primarily America. Interview with Escobar. Phenomenological aspect.

Korac is the prototypical "invisible man" in the Balkans. He does not speak in public, does not give interviews, only occasionally''is mentioned in some texts. He does not even have photographs, and many tend to attribute to Korac a mysterious influence in the political sphere, and not only in Serbia. Consciously, with the help of such stories, Korac, indirectly, also supports himself from time to time with such appearances, such as the recent interview he himself did, although he is not a journalist, with Gabriel Escobar, the special envoy for the Balkans.

It is known that Korac worked at Geneks in the 90s, the Yugoslav export giant, as the chief of cabinet of the legendary Milorad Mika Savicevic. Korac came into conflict with the then government and left Serbia in 1996. He reappears in 1998 in Republika Srpska, at a time when Milorad Dodik becomes Prime Minister for the first time. Korac'Vucic's 'usually did not refute these allegations, but the Belgrade crowd believes that it was then that a strong friendship began between Vucic and this then apparently powerful man, who in the West is considered a successful lobbyist, but in Serbia and the Balkans he is seen primarily as a man who "brings things to an end," quietly and gracefully, far from the public eye.

The current "Montenegrin mission" of Zoran Korac can also be put into this context. "I have seen Dritan Abazovic three times, met Artan Kurtije, this is apparently Dritan's best friend, talked once with Boris Bogdanovic from Democratic Montenegro, shook hands with Aleksa Becic on election night, but I think this person didn't even know my name because I'"talked to Dritan, and he told him '\'this is my friend\'," Korac lists just some of the people in Montenegro's political elite. Coffee with Spajic.

Nevertheless, Milo Spajic has a place of honor in Zoran Korac's value scale.

Zoran Korac also has a positive attitude towards Jakov Milatovic, whom he met only once, at the beginning of July this year, in Podgorica. The occasion was to organize a meeting with the First Ladies of the Sahara and Western Balkans, as well as the spouses of Benjamin Natanyahu and Vladimir Zelensky in Boka Kotorska, in Montenegro. The idea actually came from Korac's friend Maria Nicoletta Gaida, an Italian-American citizen with extensive experience in international activities.

Z''For more than 30 years, Gayda has developed and implemented more than 150 projects, including victims of conflict, survivors of war, rape and sexual violence, warring factions, local organizations and leading personalities in politics, religion, business, culture and the arts. She has also founded and managed non-profit associations, cultural centers and foundations.

Korac worked with Gajda to establish the Jadran-Ion Initiative, of which Montenegro is a member, and this influential person is a member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Politics and Economics of Southwest Europe (IPESE), of which Korac is a founder.

"And Marija says, come on, this is good for Montenegro, let's organize a big meeting of the first ladies of the Sahara countries''were the patron of such an event. And somehow, I thought I had convinced him. I went from there thinking - okay, you don't understand or you have prejudice against me because I am close to Miloja and they don't have a good relationship. "

However, the event didn't take place because of the coup d'état in Niger, but at least Korac and Milatovic got to know each other. Although he doesn't say so explicitly, it's clear that Korac used this meeting with the Montenegrin president and tried to smooth over the differences between Milatovic and Spajic, which are already a major obstacle to forming a government.

"I tried to mediate. I wanted to organize a dinner where they would talk, but Jakov politely declined for formal reasons. It was clear what it was about'"and I felt sorry for that, because I believe that the solution for Montenegro lies in this '\''holy trinity'\''-Milo, Jakov and Dritan. To the comment that it is Miloja who is determined to exclude the URA from the new government, Korach explains that Spajic is a very "humble man," but he was "killed by the Do Kwon scam. "

"They were in a fantastic relationship. When it happened, I came right away and asked Dritan why he did it. He gave me some sort of unintelligible answer. I don't know exactly what it was or why he did it, but it broke their relationship forever." According to Korac, immediately after the scam emerged, Miloja Spajic called him and told him in excitement that "he wanted to be arrested." In doing so, the mandate holder mentioned to Korac fot