Vucic: Energy situation will be bad the fall, don't say I didn't tell you

"You have to manage in all that, and we will manage," said Vucic

President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic warned today that in the fall there will be a crisis related to medicines in the whole of Europe, and also a bad energy situation.

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"Don't say afterwards, he didn't tell us... You have to manage in all this and we will manage. How? As you wish. There is no philosophy there," Vucic said at the international fair of arms and military equipment IDEX 2023, held in Abu Dhabi.

Speaking about the equipping of the Serbian Army, he announced that 40 M-84 tanks will be overhauled by the end of the year at the TRZ in Cacak, while it remains to be seen what will be done about that institute, because the state's investments are not sufficient for its recovery.

As Vucic explained, the TRZ will not be able to deliver the 109 Milos armored combat vehicles within the contract deadline. Instead, they will deliver 70, and 30 Lazar vehicles instead of 37.

Vucic stressed that 30 percent of the entire output of the defense industry must remain in Serbia.

"30 percent of everything produced must remain in Serbia and I have to put my signature on selling part of it, if a favorable price is obtained and if manufacturing is going smoothly and quickly," Vucic told reporters in Abu Dhabi.

He also noted that salaries will increase significantly in the Serbian defense industry, because, "the market is incredible, everyone wants to go to war and is preparing for war."

"We can sell everything we produce. And that this is not ethical, tell that to people in Kragujevac, Cacak, Lucani, Obrenovac, Baric...tell them that they will have no work to do after 50 years, because we will not participate in arms sales. I'm not going to tell them that," Vucic said in response to journalists' questions.

(Telegraf Biznis)