President Vucic reacts after Croatian President Milanovic cancels Brdo Brijuni summit

Photo: Tanjug/Ana Paunkovic

President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic says that he supports the decision of the president of Croatia, Zoran Milanovic, to cancel the Brdo Brijuni summit in May because he "has no place there, and it is much more important to go and lay a flower in Jasenovac (site of Croatian WW2 death camp for Serbs)".

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"As far as my presence in Brijuni is concerned, I fully support Zoran Milanovic, he is absolutely right, I don't belong there. I always wanted to, as the president of Serbia, go and lay a flower in Jasenovac, and that was always incomparably more important to me, and I can only go to Brijuni as part of my professional obligations to hear and talk to the other side because I have never shied away from dialogue," Vucic told Tanjug.

This is how he replied when asked to comment on the messages coming from Zagreb, i.e. Milanovic's statement that he will cancel the Brdo-Brijuni summit in May because he does not want Vucic to participate on account of the Serbian president's ""statements over the previous period."

According to Vucic, Milanovic did not have to cancel the entire meeting, and could have instead "invited his friends from Pristina, Tirana or wherever" - because he "certainly would not want to spoil and disturb the idyllic atmosphere."

"Regarding the statements and what Zoran Milanovic is referring to, I am not his lapdog and I am not (Andrej) Plenkovic, so he cannot take it out on me the way he is doing to some of his own people or some other foreign officials, just as I am not a lapdog of either Plenkovic or Grlic Radman so they could tell me what to say. Instead I am speaking as the free and freedom-loving president of Serbia and I am telling the truth," concluded Vucic.

(Telegraf.rs/Tanjug)