Kostunica: Are Đukanović's hands and conscience clean?

The president of the Democratic Party of Serbia, the former president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Vojislav Koštunica assessed as monstrous, dark and insidious the accusations of the Montenegrin Prime Minister and the leader of the Democratic Party of Socialists, Milo Đukanović, that he was behind the murder of the editor-in-chief of Dan Duško Jovanović, writes Dan.

In an interview with the daily newspaper Dan, Kostunica asked Đukanović if his hands were clean and his conscience clear regarding Duško's murder.

Đukanović said earlier at the press conference on the occasion of the 100 days of the Government that Jovanović was killed by "the one he benefited the most while he was alive".

"That man, who by the way knows how to set fire to the embassy of a big country in Belgrade, has one nasty habit, and that is that when he concludes that someone who has served him faithfully while alive can serve him better as a dead person, then he makes him dead. He was the employer of both Jovanović and Miodrag Lekić, and it was the same one who carried the political umbrella for the murder of Zoran Đinđić," said Đukanović.

Koštunica, responding to the accusations, emphasizes that it is true that he did not have the opportunity to know the murdered journalist Duško Jovanović.

According to the DSS president, insulting the murdered journalist by falsely claiming that I was his employer is a special kind of recklessness.

"I believe that in Montenegro there is no custom of slandering murdered people, especially not those for whom it has not been discovered who killed them to this day," Koštunica said.

On the other hand, according to his assessment, Đukanović himself, with his distracted performance, opened up the question of what disturbs him so much in the case of the murder of journalist Jovanović when he is ready to invent and subvert in this unprecedented way.

"When I am already forced to react, then I publicly announce that my hands have always been clean, and my conscience completely calm. That is why I react to Đukanović's accusations with the deepest feeling of disgust and contempt. Having answered Đukanović, now it is my turn to set a bar for him one question to which he should answer publicly. Are his hands clean and is his conscience clear," emphasized Koštunica in his reply to Đukanović.

He concluded "there is no need for me to deepen this issue, because Đukanović should still remember that the truth sets you free".

Koštunica said that for years he did not pay the slightest attention to various types of accusations that occasionally came from individuals from the leadership of Montenegro.

"Simply, after the declaration of independence of Montenegro, I thought that I should keep my belief that a common state is the best solution to myself and that there is no longer any sense in public polemics or answers to accusations that came, first of all, from Milo Đukanović. Untruths and insults Đukanović reached out to were numerous, but I did not respond to them, considering that any response to these too obvious and indecent outbursts was unnecessary," Koštunica said.

He said that he mistakenly thought that Đukanović, after all, must have something of the well-known Montenegrin honesty in him and that he could not think of such kind of meanness "to use murdered people to preserve power during the elections".