Vucic: We Respect Decision to Form Bosnian Council of Ministers, but Serbia Won't Join NATO | Beta Briefing

Vucic: We Respect Decision to Form Bosnian Council of Ministers, but Serbia Won't Join NATO

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Archive / News | 09.08.19 | access_time 13:26

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Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Aug. 9, regarding an agreement on the forming of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, that Belgrade did not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, but that Serbia would not join NATO or any other military alliance.

"Serbia does not interfere in the affairs of other countries. Their decision is the decision of political parties and bodies in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Serbia will not join NATO or any other alliance. We take care of our own security," he said.

Vucic said that it was enough to compare the military parade Serbia had organized in Nis and the one Croatia had organized in Knin, to see how dramatically Serbia had progressed.

"We have progressed because we want to be free, not to depend on anyone else. To guard our own sky, land and rivers," he said, adding that Bosnia and Herzegovina had the right to decide whatever it wanted, "although what the Serbs think about that is a different matter."

Russian Ambassador Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko said that he was an ambassador to Serbia and was not authorized to comment on events taking place in another country.

"As for NATO, we respect the fact that Serbia is neutral," he said and added that Russia believed that the decision fitted regional stability to the greatest extent.

The leaders of the Party of Democratic Action, Alliance of Independent Social Democrats and Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina - Bakir Izetbegovic, Milorad Dodik and Dragan Covic, respectively, on Aug. 5 reached an agreement on forming a new Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina and signed the Principles for the Forming of Government at the Level of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 10 months after the elections.

One of the points of contention was the annual program for the activation of the NATO Membership Action Plan, which the Party of Democratic Action insisted on.

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