Vučić: NATO puts pressure on Serbia, but Serbia remembers who bombed Belgrade

Serbian leader Aleksandar Vucic accused NATO of double standards, comparing the attitude of the alliance to the situations in Serbia during the Kosovo war and in Ukraine. He expressed this opinion during a television broadcast on the 1PRVA channel.

The President of Serbia emphasized that the world channels are now showing the consequences of the hostilities in Ukraine, but they did not show the destruction in Serbia. “Things get mixed up in our heads: observance of the principle of international law, where, no doubt, who violated it and who was the victim, and who was the victim and who violated international law and without a decision of the UN Security Council took tough decisions to the detriment of Serbia,” Vucic recalled.

He also noted the pressure that NATO is exerting on Serbia, trying to achieve accession to the sanctions against Russia, which once condemned the “aggression of the alliance”, and puts the country in a difficult situation. “On the other hand, Russia has never imposed sanctions against us… We can say that they occupied and then left the airfield in Pristina. But in the last ten years, on foreign policy issues, the Russian Federation has not been against Serbia. And they (the West) are putting us in a position in which we will lose our only ally in the UN Security Council, who has always been for maintaining the territorial integrity of Serbia and Resolution 1244. You dare not forget such things, and what decision should Serbia take? Vučić, noting that at the same time, the “global idlers” did not bomb Moscow, but bombed Belgrade.

It is known that Serbia does not support sanctions against Russia, emphasizing that they do not correspond to the national interests of the republic. Nevertheless, the country’s leadership recognizes the territorial integrity of Ukraine and hopes for the victory of diplomacy.

In addition, as Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic emphasizes, the republic is not going to nationalize Russian property located on the territory of Serbia.

Recall that on February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the start of a special military operation in the Donbass. The goals of the special operation are the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine. This was followed by tough economic sanctions by the US, the EU and other countries against Russia. Many Western companies left the Russian Federation.

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