Opposition MP: EC's Decision on Jadar Project Condemnable

Rio Tinto (BETAPHOTO/Green patrol/DS)

The European Commission's decision to designate the Rio Tinto company's Jadar Project strategically important is condemnable and will not affect the will of the citizens who have clearly stated that lithium will not be mined, New Face of Serbia MP Dragan Ninkovic said on June 5.

"This decision is not obligatory, but it works in favor of the traitorous regime of Aleksandar Vucic which is the only one ready to turn Serbia into Europe's trash heap and poison the soil and people to stay in power," Ninkovic said.

The Rio Tinto company, he stressed, "has proven itself globally to be a factor that transforms entire regions into wasteland and corrupts governments with dirty money and causes unrest." "We will not cede to a policy of destroying fertile soil and dislocating our people with the objective of making people from the Serbian Progressive Party even richer. It is a disgrace that the EC supports such a project which is entirely contrary to European values and the standard of living, and at the same time slows down Serbia's already sluggish European road which the Progressives have been undermining since long ago," Ninkovic said.

The New Face of Serbia demands the urgent cessation of the Jadar Project, which the party said would make Serbia a center for dirty industry and threaten the health of hundreds of thousands.