Vucic: If Pogrom Starts in Kosovo, We Will React in 24 Hours Unless NATO Gets Involved

Aleksandar Vucic(BETAPHOTO/MILOS MISKOV/MO)

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has said that Serbia will not endanger anyone in any way with its troops, that in the event of clashes in Kosovo and Metohija it will wait for 24 hours for a response from NATO, and only if "the pogrom continues, it will react and prevent" the events that happened in the 1990s or in 2004 from repeating.

Vucic told Pink TV late on Sept. 26 that he had conveyed that to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, that the Serbian army had increased its combat readiness but had not been given orders to act, and that it had not entered the territory of Kosovo and Metohija because under the Kumanovo Agreement and all subsequent decisions it "has no right to do so."

"I am sure that the people in NATO understood me well and will do everything to protect the Serb population (in Kosovo). We are a small people and do not have so many hearths that we can squander them or break them apart," said Vucic.

He also said that after Russian Ambassador Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko, on the same night, military envoys of the Quint, i.e. of the U.S., Italy, Germany, the UK, and France, would visit the Serbian army units in the south of the country.