Paunović to Klikovac: Milatović didn't ask about Bečić, he had to convince Milanović that Đukanović had nothing to do with smuggling

The president of the Democratic Party councilors' club in Podgorica and the party's spokesperson, Mitar Paunović, said that the president of the state, Jakov Milatović, did not ask his Croatian counterpart, Zoran Milanović, about Aleksa Bečić's status on the lists, because Bečić "has absolutely no burden with that - but he had, understandably, more pressing matters to attend to."

He was reacting to a statement by the head of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) caucus, Andrija Klikovac.

"First, he had to convince President Milanović that those who are being arrested these days for cigarette smuggling have absolutely nothing to do with Milo Đukanović, and that Đukanović, imagine, has nothing to do with cigarette smuggling. Then, in the best diplomatic manner, he had to explain that Milo never said that he hated chess because of the chessboard, that he hated Chetniks, Ustashas and 100% Montenegrins the most, that he never attacked Dubrovnik and that he did not say that Slobodan Milošević was the best thing that happened to Yugoslavia, but only in a figurative, metaphorical and misinterpreted sense, of course," Paunović wrote.

"By the way, he probably had to ask him to forget how all of Milo's friends with whom he had been ravaging Montenegro for years were arrested one after another: Zoran Lazović, Vesna Medenica, Petar Lazović, Petar Ivanović, Milutin Simović, Dejan Peruničić, Veselin Veljović... And in the end, he probably swore under his breath, in a human, patriotic way, that Milo had not betrayed any of them. And that he never would. Unless, of course, if he needed to," the reaction reads.