The government decides: Serbia cancels all military exercises and activities with all partners

Photo: Tanjug/Ministry of Defense of Serbia/jovo Mamula

At yesterday's session, the Government of the Republic of Serbia made a decision to suspend all military exercises and activities with all partners, said Minister of Defense Aleksandar Vulin. As he pointed out, our country is facing tremendous and unfounded pressure from the European Union.

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"The pressure that makes no sense and ia not grounded in our decisions or our actions, or even in reality, is the result of hysteria which determines political decisions and directions of great and powerful countries. We are required to suspend the planned military exercises with Belarus at the cost of abandoning our European future and at the cost of even greater pressure on our policy, but also on our people in Kosovo and Metohija and in the Serb Republic (RS)," said Vulin.

The defense minister said that our country, by the decision of the National Assembly, is a military neutral one and that it would remain so, and in order to avoid additional pressure, the government decided to suspend all military exercises and activities with all partners in the next 6 months, without exception.

"We will not participate in any exercises or military activities either with the NATO or the CSTO, either with Russia or with the US," he said and added that participation in peacekeeping operations will be specially considered and if need be, suspended.

"The process of equipping and strengthening our armed forces will not be stopped, and we will work to increase our combat readiness harder and more persistently than ever. This is the only way to preserve neutrality and this painful decision obliges us to rely solely on ourselves and our own strength," stressed Minister Vulin and concluded his statement with the message: Long live the Serbian Army, Long live Serbia!

The first military exercise was to be held in Belarus September 10 to 15.

(Telegraf.rs)