28.11.2019.
Minister Vulin: Vučić has the support of the Serbian Armed Forces for military neutrality policy
Until 2012 and with the appointment of President Vučić as minister of defence, the Serbian Armed Forces were systematically downsized and pushed aside, at which point it was barred from cooperating with the East. Aleksandar Vučić changed all that. He equalized and balanced our policy and our relationship with our partners both in the East and the West. That is why we are appreciated and respected, defence minister Aleksander Vulin said when asked by reporters how he comments on the US report that Serbia is increasingly moving closer to Russia.
- Those who cannot understand this cannot understand the Serbian people. As our supreme commander, Aleksandar Vučić will have the absolute support of the Serbian Armed Forces and all its members in terms of military neutrality, safeguarding the independence and security of our country – Minister Vulin emphasised.
He added that some see military neutrality as a ban on cooperation with the Russian Federation or perceive it as a ban on cooperation with the Partnership for Peace programme, but neither is true.
- Aleksandar Vučić leads Serbia as a military neutral country and as a country that makes its own decisions. As long as he is the President of the country and commander-in-chief of the Serbian Armed Forces, the Serbian Armed Forces and the Serbian state will be militarily neutral and take care of themselves and their interests. The fact that we are being attacked from different sides is the best proof that President Vučić is right and that his difficult and personally brave decision to persist in the path of military neutrality is the only right one for both Serbia and its citizens – minister Vulin said, adding that everything else is malicious.
If anyone expects that Serbia, because it is militarily neutral, takes one of the sides, Minister Vulin points out that this is not and will not be true.
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