On Friday, the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, held a press conference where he spoke about the political and economic cross-section of the situation in Serbia and the moves that he, as president, will make, and the Government to undertake in the coming period, as well as about the situation in Kosovo and the Republika Srpska.
He said that Serbia is under “overall pressure” due to its military-political position and military neutrality, as well as its attitude towards the conflict in Ukraine and Belgrade’s position not to join the sanctions of the Russian Federation.
He also spoke about the decision of the Committee for Political Affairs and Democracy of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PSVE) to give a positive opinion on the admission of Kosovo to the Council of Europe, which he called a “shameful” decision.
“We will make decisions regarding the Council of Europe. I am ready to listen to the opinion of not only the parliamentary majority, the Government, but also the representatives of all political parties in Serbia on what Serbia’s reaction should be. I believe that the reaction should be strong, serious and responsible. I don’t want to say what it is in the final sense,” said Vučić.
He also referred to the Resolution on the genocide in Srebrenica, which, at the suggestion of Germany and Rwanda, should be before the United Nations General Assembly on April 27.
“I think the worst about the terrible crime that happened in Srebrenica. I went to present a flower and to pay my respects to the victims, the Bosniaks. This is being done for two reasons: one is to punish the Serbian people for their libertarian and independent policy, to be additionally pressured on the issue of Kosovo and because of their foreign policy orientation, and the second reason is that they can show Muslims around the world that despite the support they provide or they provided in the beginning to Israel, and since they cannot fully be on the side of the Palestinians and the people in Gaza, to show, ‘here, we have found Muslims that we will support so that you can see that we do not have an a priori negative attitude towards Muslims,'” said Vucic.
He said that “a day later” the West will come out with the aspiration that according to them “genocidal creations” cannot exist. In this context, he said that Serbia is not a guarantor of the implementation of the Dayton Agreement, but is there to monitor its observance.
“According to Dayton, Republika Srpska must exist and no one has the right to abolish it. Then you know what we are going to face. Immediately the day after that, on the basis of only one rather arbitrary, non-binding verdict in which there is no direct incrimination of the Republic of Serbia, they will demand war reparations from the Republic of Serbia and everything else that they have announced countless times. I want to tell you how difficult a situation some Western powers want to bring our country into,” Vučić said, stressing that Serbia “will have a collective West against it.”
He called on the citizens of Serbia to be united in the matter of national interests and announced a meeting with the President of China Xi Jinping, as well as the “Easter Assembly of Serbia and Republika Srpska” on May 5 and 6 in Belgrade and other cities.
“It will be the largest ever gathering of Serbia and Republika Srpska, which will be in accordance with the Dayton Agreement and the law on parallel connections that the Dayton Agreement allows,” emphasized Vučić.
Speaking about the situation in Republika Srpska, Vučić said that it is “boiling” and that he does not always agree with what the president of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s entity Milorad Dodik says.
“But when I see how it is going and in which direction it is going, which is not reported in Serbia, I will ask what we will do when all the banks are abolished, and when they tell the postal savings bank that you cannot work with this and that entity, because they are under sanctions. That is how the big ones work Everything beyond the law. I will try to ask Dodik to lead a policy of peace, a policy of lowering tensions, although I don’t think I have the right. I will try for friendly reasons, but that will not change their attitude towards him,” Vučić pointed out, AA writes.
