BELGRADE, March 24 NATO and the West in general want to achieve from Serbia to change its foreign policy course, for this they influence it through the media, NGOs and the opposition, said the former head of the Security and Information Agency (BIA, intelligence and counterintelligence) of Serbia Alexander Vulin.
«The West does not want a free and freedom-loving Serbia. It wants a Serbia that recognizes Kosovo, renounces the Republika Srpska (in Bosnia and Herzegovina — ed.), which will impose sanctions against the Russian Federation, and after that join NATO, as a logical path «, said Vulin.
To achieve this, the West influences the authorities and society of Serbia through NGOs, the media and the opposition, he added.
“Our opposition is a pro-NATO opposition, not a left or right opposition… Do you think they won’t want to support the recognition of Kosovo and impose sanctions against Russia? They are here for this,” he noted.
In addition, “Western intelligence services work in Serbia through the NGO sector, that’s what they exist for,” he noted.
“You don’t really think that all these hundreds and thousands of organizations have some members, some people? That they really are needed for something useful and do something? Some kind of “centers for politics and strategic analysis” «, which consist of one or two people. No, they are created to form public opinion and for this they are paid by the West,» Vulin said.
He summarized that “the current government, while it is led by (President) Aleksandar Vucic, will not recognize Kosovo, will not renounce the Republika Srpska and will not impose sanctions against the Russian Federation.”
«Some other government might have done this. But the citizens of Serbia are not for such a government, they voted against it,» he added.
Vulin served as director of the BIA from December 2022 to November 2023. Previously, he was the Minister of Defense of Serbia (2017-2020) and the Minister of Internal Affairs of Serbia (2020-2022).
In 1999, an armed confrontation between Albanian separatists from the Kosovo Liberation Army and the Serbian army and police led to the bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (at that time consisting of Serbia and Montenegro) by NATO forces. The military operation was undertaken without the approval of the UN Security Council based on the assertion of Western countries that the authorities of the FRY carried out ethnic cleansing in the Kosovo autonomy and provoked a humanitarian catastrophe there.