Vucevic: Everyone can come to Serbia, except for those who have warrants for their arrest

Photo: Tanjug/Sava Radovanovic

Serbian Prime Minister Milos Vucevic said yesterday in Bled, Slovenia, where he participated in the 19th Strategic Forum, that everyone can come to Serbia, except for those wanted by Interpol and other countries.

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"For the first time I met Mr. (Croatian Prime Minister) Plenovic, I've recently become the prime minister of Serbia. Of course, there will be an opportunity to talk. Everyone can come to Serbia, except for those who are wanted by Interpol and other countries," Vucevic told Croatian journalists.

When asked about the recently arrested person who is suspected of being a Croatian spy, Vucevic said that this person is of Serbian origin, that he does not know if he has Croatian citizenship and that the detainee is being treated in accordance with the law.

On August 26, the Security-Information Agency, BIA, in cooperation with other competent state bodies, conducted a counterintelligence operation to arrest a Croatian spy in the area of Belgrade, and this operation, according to Novosti, is the result of several months of work by BIA and the continuation of the suppression of espionage and destructive-subversive activities of Croatia's intelligence and security service SOA.

In a statement to the Croatian media, the Serbian prime minister also referred to the panel he participated in at the 19th Bled Strategic Forum.

"Serbia does not believe in the policy of sanctions, I also stated that during the panel. Mr. Plenovic gave an example of how we were exposed to sanctions and how that contributed to the change of a regime in Serbia. And again we had to go back to the 1990s, Serbia and Croatia debating who is guilty or not guilty, who is more or less responsible. We came to talk about parallel realities. I expected that we would talk more about Europe and the Balkans, not about Ukraine and the Middle East," said Vucevic.

He added that Serbia's decision remains not to impose sanctions.

"As the PM, I was there during most of Macron's stay in Serbia. Many agreements were reached and signed, and many things were opened up for the upcoming period as well. I think that the visit of Scholz, as well as of President Xi, was great. This is the policy that Serbia will be conduct as long as it is in the process of accession (to the EU), and when we are in the process or achieve membership, then we will harmonize Serbia's foreign policy with the EU," said Vucevic.

(Telegraf.rs/Tanjug)