Nikolic: Serbia must not be dragged into turmoil again
UZICE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic has noted on Wednesday at a ceremony marking Armed Forces Day that, in the recent past, Serbia experienced a lot of suffering, caused even by those that were allies in the world wars, and he warned that the country must not allow to be dragged into turmoil again due to quarrels of others.
"They want to drag us into turmoil, but we already suffered a lot," Nikolic cautioned at the central ceremony in Uzice, western Serbia, held on the occasion of Armed Forces Day, April 23.
He noted that the perpetrators of the 1999 bombing of Serbia have recently admitted that they did it, without a UN approval, under the pretext of trying to prevent possible suffering of one people and potential expulsion of civilians.
"They found an excuse for the (NATO) bombing of a sovereign state, a UN member, and the killing of its children and destruction of its resources that were created by its citizens, in prevention of potential suffering. They had better not try to invent any excuse, as there was none- or they had better admit what the real reason was - the creation of an Albanian state in the territory of Serbia," Nikolic said.
Describing this as a dangerous precedent and something that would be shameful even for barbarian peoples from the pre-Christian era, Nikolic said that "Serbia rightly expects to get back on its feet."
He said that big and heavily-armed states still demonstrate that they take different approaches to solving similar issues in the world.
"Neither do they ask us when they quarrel and put world peace at risk, nor they will consult us when they make peace," Nikolic said.
"They want to drag us into sufferings, but we already endured suffering...
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