The leader of the New Party, Zoran Žvković, said that at the time of the bombing, the US Assistant Secretary for the Balkans, James Dobbins, told him that there were three problems. that Serbia has to become a democratic country - Slobodan Milošević, Vuk Drašković and Zoran Đinđić, and offered him money to replace Đinđić as head of the DS.
Živković said in an interview for the daily newspaper "Danas" that he asked Dobins "on what basis Djindjic, and he replied, "he is also a Serbian nationalist..."
Živković states that Dobbins offers him to perform his "bright duty" and to "remove Djindjic from the party, and someone else will, as he stated, "take care of Drašković, and then we will all together remove Milošević".
He mentions funds, money, help for the intra-party campaign, says Živković.
He says that he told Dobins that he completely misjudged Djindjic, and that his offer to replace Djindjic was also a mistake.
"After that, they called Vuksanović, so he took the money and tried in January 2000 to deal with Zoran Đinđić".
"When I met Zoran, who was in Montenegro at the time, I always joked: 'Listen, I saved your chair! I refused the money that was offered to me, and you couldn't even complain, because you are out of the country, and he would retort - What you didn't take, so let's share,'" said Živković.
He says that they then wrote an official letter to the State Department and asked that they be released in the future with the help of Dobbins, pointing out that at that time various dark minds wanted to hide Djindjic, but he still returned to Serbia.
Živković pointed out that his greatest satisfaction and political success was the fact that he was the only deputy of the president of the Democratic Party, Zoran Đinđić, who nominated him twice, and was elected twice by the party's presidency.
When asked when and under what circumstances he first met Đinđić, Živković replied that it was in Niš, in August 1991.
According to his words, the Democrats had a session of the Main Board of the party, and after that a dinner with sponsors and friends of the party.
"I was also one of the sponsors of the DS for Niš and that region, and we will meet there. There are also (Dragoljub) Mićunović, and (Vojislav) Koštunica, and some others, but Zoran is the youngest among them and I am sitting at the table with "That's how we met. Somewhere at the end of the dinner, he asked me why I wasn't a member of the party, when I was already a sponsor," said Živković.
According to him, at that time political leaders seemed to him as if they had come out of a museum.
"Those in power, as if they came out of the House of Flowers, the civil option, like Nikola Milošević, Koštunica, Mićunović, as if they came from the Museum of Serbian History, Vuk (Drašković) and (Vojislav) Šešelj and those other extras seemed to get drunk after some filming, then they woke up in politics. Compared to all of them, Zoran Đinđić was Europe..." said Živković.
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