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SOURCE- POBJEDA / M.J.
The leader of the Democratic People's Party (DNP), Milan Knežević, during today's debate in parliament with the president of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS), Danijel Živković, said that he would retire from politics if DPS deputy Danijel Živković proved his claims that Knežević in 1998 with more other demonstrators asked for weapons in order to go to Tuzi.
You reported a lie: that I had declared in the Assembly: "If I had a weapon in 1998, I would have gone to Tuza". It is a brutal untruth, if you find that statement that I announced in the Parliament, I will leave political life and will never appear in public life again. You tell me when I said that and give that quote. If I didn't say that, I expect you to apologize - said Knežević.
Živković, replying to Knežević, confirmed that he would apologize if it was revealed that Knežević had not uttered that sentence. At the end of the vote on the dismissal of Andrija Mandić, the president of DPS Živković played an audio recording from his mobile phone in which the former president of Montenegro Milo Đukanović is clearly heard saying that some people "after ominous calls to go to Tuzi and departures before They were looking for weapons in the barracks of the Army of Yugoslavia" and Knežević shouted at him from the assembly hall - "I asked".
So, after the call, the ominous call from that same gathering, to go to Tuzi - after the departure of those citizens in front of the Yugoslav Army barracks in Montenegro to look for weapons... - said Đukanović, and Knežević interrupted him with the words: "I asked. That's the truth".
He added that he was 18 at the time.
I'm glad you can confirm - Đukanović answered him on that occasion.
After Živković played the video, Knežević said that they went to the Morača barracks to ask for weapons, but also for protection from the Army.
After the police, together with the criminals, started chasing us in front of the Government building, we went in front of the Morača barracks to ask for protection from the Army and to give us weapons - without the intention of going to Tuza - he stated.
He asked where he said to go on Tuza, although on the recording played by Živković it is heard that - after Đukanović's statement that the demonstrators were looking for weapons to go to Tuza - Knežević uttered the quoted sentence about weapons.
That's right. I was in front of the Morača barracks when they dragged us bare-handed across the Blažovo bridge. I am proud of the fact that even then I was against Milo Đukanović and that I was looking for weapons to defend myself from the para-police Hutus who are harassing us in the streets of Podgorica. I should have let you shoot and kill us like rabbits, as you did in 2015 - Knežević stated.
Živković did not get a chance to answer him because the Vice President of the Assembly Zdenka Popović finished the session.
