Knežević: Croatia submitted 13 requests to Montenegro

"We have now come to a situation where Croatia thinks it can block our way," said the president of the DNP

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Milan Knežević, the president of the ruling Democratic People's Party, says that Croatia, which recently blocked the closing of a chapter in our country's negotiations with the European Union, has presented Montenegro with thirteen demands.

He assessed that Montenegro and Serbia were the main topics of confrontation between the presidential candidates who participated in yesterday's elections in Croatia.

"At the meetings of the presidential candidates, their main topic was Serbia, the president of the country and the need to re-educate Serbia, and then they also included Montenegro, in such a way that... they are asking Serbia for these 12.000 kilometers, and they made 13 demands to us. that is, to give them Prevlaka, that is, to enter the control of the sea part of the Bay of Kotor, because they consider the land part to be theirs 'Zoran Gopčević' as they determine, let's commit to having Croatian language courses at Ivan's troughs, to prosecute the war criminals themselves whose names they will deliver, so let's deliver them...", said Knežević in a show on one television in Serbia. Among the guests was the president of that country, Aleksandar Vučić.

He said that Croatia also demands that "the people who were in Morinje be punished and prosecuted".

"No one was beaten there, nor was anyone killed, and a plaque was placed there saying that we tortured the Croats. So, we have some 12-13 conditions. We have already returned the 'Josip Benković' Cultural Center in Tivat to them and they said that just started with those requests."

Commenting on the Government's decision to declare a Day of Mourning in Montenegro due to the murder of a child in a Zagreb school, he says that the executive power made the decision "as it made because of what happened in Serbia". "Unfortunately, we did not make a decision and I feel guilty for that, when we started with it, when there were those big floods in Jablanica, in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina".

But, as he said, what he "always warned about" is happening now.

"You know when the Red Star water polo players were attacked in Split, and when they fled into the sea? And there was a Montenegrin, Kralj, he told them everything: 'I'm not a Serb, I'm a Montenegrin'. And they told him: You are even worse' and they beat him even more than the others. We have now come to a situation where Croatia thinks it can block our way. This Bulj, the house gives him, I don't know if he is from Serb or not, but imagine if your last name is Bulj, I would go up against the wall stopped the entry of Serbian politicians into that government, those people from that Homeland movement. You have this Mrs. Kekin, who is married to a Serb. Mile Kekin, the leader of the group Hladno pivo is not Mile but Milutin, but it is popular now be Mile. Now, that lady says that it will never happen again that, on the day of their national celebration on August 4 and the 'Storm', the Croatian flag will not be at half-mast in Belgrade, because she will replace the ambassador in Belgrade. And of course, the barrage of attacks on Aleksandar Vučić. Just look at their confrontations and you will see that we Serbs and Montenegrins, Serbia and Montenegro were the main topics," said the DNP leader.

He also said that there are 41 border disputes in Europe, of which Croatia has four.

"Imagine that you have a neighbor in your neighborhood who doesn't talk to anyone and carries around some kind of barber and pitchfork, threatens you with the cadastre, the police... and you can't in any way make an agreement with those people and that neighbor, because he wants to have the right over your property," Knežević said.

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