Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said he would ask Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik to change the date of his visit to the Serbian National Assembly due to, as he said, expected violence during the protest on Saturday, March 15.
“I will ask him tomorrow. I spoke to him today before I saw that these people had definitely decided to resort to violence. They knew that we had arranged for President Dodik to come to the Serbian National Assembly on March 14, 15 and 16. But they will be in front of the National Assembly again, probably to harass President Dodik and the entire Assembly, because they don’t care…”, Vučić told RTS.
Vučić said he expects between 60,000 and 80,000 people from all over Serbia, including the region, to attend the protest, and that “they will do great harm to the country”, but, he added, they will not succeed in doing anything and anyone who participates in the violence will be arrested and prosecuted.
“But after that, it’s over. No one will be able to harass Serbia anymore, the law will be respected,” Vučić said, adding that he would not provide a transitional government, and that “students in Pioneer Park who want to study will be protected.”
Commenting on the first message from the new US administration from Washington that the President of the RS is undermining the stability and institutions of BiH, and endangering its security, Vučić stressed that he did not agree with such a message, and that he would do his best to talk to American representatives and present them with a different argument.
He added that on March 19 he would go to Brussels to talk with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, and on March 24 he would talk with European officials Antonio Costa and Ursula von der Leyen.
