Vucic: Talks with CIA Director Useful and Important to Serbia’s Future

Aleksandar Vucic, Belgrade, June 24 2024 (BETAPHOTO/Milan Obradovic)

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said in Belgrade, on Aug. 24, that he had very useful and good talks with the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Willian Burns, and that comments that the visit to Serbia was clandestine, whereas the CIA chief’s visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina was transparent, made him laugh.

“You know, you talk to your guests, and find out if they want to appear in public, or not,” Vucic explained, adding that the themes of the meeting were important to the future of Serbia, and the region, and that the meeting was decent and important.

After a corner-laying ceremony at the site where a facility for the accommodation and training of Serbia's special Cobras military police is being built, Vucic spoke about foreign donations to the non-governmental sector in Serbia, explaining that it was an important source of foreign investment in Serbia, and that part of the money ended up in the Usce and Galerija shopping malls, which “boosts consumption and growth rates.”

The president said that he would soon move his office to the west of Serbia, at least for a week, to talk to people everywhere. He also said that protests against lithium mining were getting smaller and smaller. “You can hear something from people only in direct contact,” Vucic said, adding that he did not underestimate the protests, but said that “they are now smaller in scale, because popular opinion is shifting.”