The EU-brokered accord was met with strong opposition from the pro-independence Liberal Alliance (LS) and Social Democratic Party (SDP), whose coalition agreement with Djukanovic's Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) were conditional upon an independence referendum by end-2002.
Sporazum postignut uz pomoć EU naišao je na oštro protivljenje pro-independističkog Liberalnog saveza (LS) i Socijaldemokratske partije (SDP), čiji je koalicioni sporazum sa Đukanovićevom Demokratskom partijom socijalista (DPS) uslovljen održavanjem referenduma o nezavisnosti do kraja 2002.