22.05.2018.

Minister Vulin: Vučić stood up for pensioners in drafting the law

Today, Minister of Defence Aleksandar Vulin participated in the debate on amendments submitted to the Draft law on housing construction at subsidised prices for members of the security forces within the Fifth Sitting of the First Regular Session of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia.

In the final part of today's session, Minister Vulin specifically referred to the category of military pensioners, including those who came from the former Yugoslav republics, expelled in various ways, who retreated with their army.

- You also have a significant number of military pensioners who worked in the area of Serbia, who spent their working lives here, moved with their families to the places where the Armed Forces told them to work and simply could not solve their housing issue. They have spent their entire career changing their place of residence, hoping that the system will do for them what was promised and that at the end they would be permanently taken care of and their problems permanently resolved..

According to Minister Vulin, President of the Republic Aleksandar Vučić insisted that pensioners be entered into this law.

- They were not previously encompassed by it, but at his insistence, military pensioners were entered in this law precisely for this reason, because he correctly thought that these people should be thanked for all the years they spent working – Minister Vulin emphasized.

Answering the MP's question, Minister Vulin pointed out that Leskovac will also be included in this project when the local self-government puts all that is needed at its disposal.

- The Armed Forces demands 128 apartments in Leskovac, and certainly the police have their demand, so there is every economic justification to do so – Minister Vulin stressed.

Speaking about the attitude towards military pensioners, during today's debate, Minister Vulin recalled that in the previous period, the debt to military pensioners, which was incurred in the period when it was refused to comply with the decision of the Constitutional Court, was repaid, and Aleksandar Vučić, the then prime minister, insisted and took over the obligation to find a solution for these people, to pay them what is owed to them, but also to avoid courts and court costs.

- Aleksandar Vučić found a way to repay debts that others made. Thanks to such a policy, we are renewing the armed forces, we can buy and repair MiGs and all other systems that we need, but we can dedicate ourselves to each individual in the security structures, to think about their apartments, about education, medical treatment, but also to take care of the kind of uniform they have, about petty and big things – Minister Vulin emphasized, adding that this is how the responsible authorities behave.