“I believe that Serbia must not join NATO,” Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told an election rally on Monday. “Serbia is a free country and a militarily neutral country. Serbia will be defending its land and its sky on its own. But let me tell you something: our duty is to forgive and our duty is not to forget,” he added, speaking of NATO’s 78-day bombing campaign against Serbia in 1999, in which children, such as those he named, were killed. “We have no right to forget this. We will get far more stronger than we were in those days, when the irresponsible, the arrogant and the presumptuous were bombing us and waging a war of aggression against us and our country.”
Serbia’s Minister of the Interior, Aleksandar Vulin, assured Russia’s Ambassador to Serbia, Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko, today (Tuesday), that “Serbia will never be a part of the anti-Russian hysteria, when property of Russian citizens and the Russian Federation itself is being confiscated, and it will not ban Russian media, expel Russian students from schools, and remove Russian writers and scientists from textbooks. A civilization that cancels Russian writers, scientists, freedom fighters, a civilization that rejects everything that the Russian people gave the world would be a very poor civilization….”
