Vucic: Big powers should ensure world peace so that climate change can be tackled

BAKU - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Tuesday called on big powers to ensure peace in the world and, above all, resolve the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, so that the world could tackle the issue of climate change.

Addressing the UN's COP29 climate change summit in Baku, Vucic said restoring peace was one of the

"prerequisites to start tackling the issue of fighting climate change."

"Nobody likes the word peace today because everybody wants to win against the other side, everybody wants to see a defeat of the other side. On the other hand, we need to invest much more in peace, otherwise we will have to put more money into armaments, ordnance and weaponry, as we did, and as we do today, instead of investing hugely into all the necessary instruments for fighting climate change," Vucic said.

"Yes, we need to tackle floods, drought,...