Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic. File photoBELGRADE, Mar 9The Serbian authorities were forced to support a resolution at the UN condemning the Russian operation to demilitarize Ukraine, otherwise it would be impossible to insist on the principle of territorial integrity in the situation with Kosovo and Metohija, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on the air of the B92 TV channel. In an address to citizens last Wednesday Vucic said that the Serbian authorities supported four of the 13 points of the UN resolution condemning the actions of the Russian Federation in Ukraine — those that do not imply sanctions, the Serbian authorities do not plan to alienate the property of Russian companies in the country. As Vučić noted, the crisis due to hostilities in Ukraine is having a dramatic impact on Serbia, which has found itself under enormous foreign political pressure.
"We insist on respecting the territorial integrity of states, this is our principle. On this we base the preservation of Kosovo and Metohija as part of Serbia. If the invasion of Ukraine had not been condemned, we would never again have the moral right to make this argument", Vučić said.
«As for the sanctions, maybe I'm coerced, maybe I'm weak, and they are all brave, but these are the people who handed over the Serbs to The Hague (International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia — ed.) in bags,» the Serbian leader said.
Who is not against us is with us: Russia announced the list of unfriendly countriesVučić previously explained Belgrade's support for a UN resolution condemning Russia's actions in Ukraine with concern for the well-being of Serbia and external pressure. French President Emmanuel Macron, in a telephone conversation with his Serbian counterpart on Saturday, welcomed Serbia's support for the UN resolution. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, nothing threatens the civilian population. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian President emphasized.The development of the situation is in the online report>>
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