Vucic: They will not manage to bring Serbia down

VIENNA - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has said that a campaign is being conducted against the Serbian Armed Forces, and a certain number of politicians are trying to cause the fall of all the things that are good in Serbia, but underlined that they will not succeed.

Vucic stated on Thursday that the campaign is being waged against the institution that enjoys the greatest support of the public, adding that the attacks on the Serbian Army were launched after its major contribution in the flood defence last spring and a great parade marking the 70th anniversary of Belgrade liberation in October, adding they are aimed at creating instability in Serbia.

My message to all of them is that they will not be able to bring Serbia down, they will not succeed in their intentions, the prime minister told reporters in Vienna, where he stayed on a one-day visit.

Answering reporters' questions concerning the allegations presented by the non-governmental organisation Humanitarian Law Center (FHP) that it possesses files showing that Serbian Armed Forces Chief of the General Staff General Ljubisa Dikovic is responsible for war crimes in Kosovo in 1999, Vucic said that similar allegations appeared three or four years ago.

He said that all these allegations need to be discussed in detail and openly, adding that he personally believes that Dikovic is not a war criminal.

What I hold as true is irrelevant, and it is up to the institutions to do their job and determine whether the allegations are true or not, Vucic said.