The Law on the Status of the Descendants of the Petrović Njegoš Dynasty ( Montenegrin: ''Zakon o Statusu Potomaka Dinastije Petrović Njegoš'') is a 2011

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that rehabilitates the Royal House of Montenegro. It was passed in the

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on 12 July 2011, and was signed by President of the Parliament

Ranko Krivokapić Ranko Krivokapić (Montenegrin Cyrillic: Ранко Кривокапић; born August 17, 1961) is a Montenegrin politician who served as the minister of foreign affairs in 2022. He is a former long-term President of the Parliament of Montenegro ...

. The law “governs the important issues regarding the status of the descendants of the Petrović Njegoš dynasty or the historical and moral rehabilitation of the Petrović-Njegoš dynasty whose dethroning was contrary to the Constitution of the

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, a violent act of annexation in the year 1918.” (Article 1).

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The Law on the Status of the Descendants of the Petrović Njegoš Dynasty is reproduced here in full in Montenegrin and English:

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