23.08.2019.
Communique
Regarding the strike announced by individuals who have remained in the hotel “Bristol”, the Ministry of Defence calls for the politicians not to incite them to strike and not to play with their fates, rendering support to them for something though knowing themselves that the tenants are not entitled to it in accordance with the law.
Yet again we call for the persons who have remained in the “Bristol” to move immediately in the flats in the A block, which they have already toured, and to military hotels “Zvezdara” and “Galeb” in Belgrade in line with the rights they exercise.
The Ministry of Defence remains of its position that it will honour the law and that it cannot fulfil the requests of the persons who have remained in the “Bristol” and provide them with permanent housing not abiding by the law. The strike cannot change a thing in that matter.
There is a uniform list in the Ministry of Defence and Serbian Armed Forces of persons interested in obtaining flats, and the list consists of more than 18,000 individuals, and if we gave the flats to the former tenants of the “Bristol” against the law and despite the existing ranking list, 18,000 active servicemen and retired servicemen would be entitled to sue the Ministry of Defence and would win the lawsuit. Because of similar violations of law back in 2008, the Ministry of Defence paid six billion dinars in last two years for adjudicated compensations in lawsuits for discrimination of reservists. That is why such violations of law will not happen again.
The Ministry of Defence will be guided in its actions exclusively by legal possibilities for the resolution of that issue.
