Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic (BETAPHOTO/MILOS MISKOV)
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic stated on Aug. 13 that official Belgrade did not want the state to be part of any military organization, including NATO.
Speaking at a joint news conference with Austrian Chancellor Christian Stocker in Belgrade, he said that Serbia maintained good relations with NATO and that it would “continue to develop them.” “We do not want to be a part of any broader (military) organization,” Vucic stated, reminding of Serbia’s neutrality.
Vucic stated that elections in Serbia would be held before the legally and constitutionally prescribed deadline, stressing that there was “zero probability” that he would amend the Constitution in order to run for president again. “An election is the only place where the people say what they think. There has been nine months of not very massive, but certainly violent demonstrations, and all these rallies were unannounced and therefore illegal,” Vucic said.
He also stated that he was not a dictator, as he is commonly referred to in Austrian media, that he would not amend the Constitution in order to run for president again and that his mandate would, therefore, “expire in a year and several months.”
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