Vucic: I'm going to Tivat because Ursula von der Leyen invited me there

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Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said today that he will go to Montenegro for the EU-Western Balkans Summit in Tivat in early June only because President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen invited him and added that otherwise he would not go there.

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When asked by a journalist in Shanghai to comment on the leader of the Freedom and Justice Party, Dragan Djilas, saying that Serbia's path to the European Union has already ended because it is not possible to reach Brussels via Beijing, while certain opposition politicians say that he is going to Tivat "only to irritate the hosts" - Vucic said that he is a free man and that the Serbian people choose their own path.

He added that he will not go to Tivat via Beijing, but will decide for himself how to go.

"I won't go through Beijing, I will decide for myself how I will do it. Maybe I will go through Trebinje despite of Djilas' media, and maybe I won't. Whatever I choose. Because, you know, I am a free man and I choose my own path, just as our people choose their own path, no one else determines it for them. And it will be the same with Tivat," said Vucic.

Asked to comment on the verdict of the Montenegrin judiciary, which rejected the request of his brother, Andrej Vucic, that Podgorica's Vijesti editor-in-chief Mihailo Jovovic and editors and journalists Danilo Mihajlovic and Jelena Jovanovic jointly pay him 5,000 euros in compensation for the violation of honor, reputation and dignity, the president said that it was expected.

"I don't know why he needed to sue them, he thought as a normal person that when someone writes that he is a killer, a drug delaer, that someone would get into the merits of the matter," said Vucic.

The president also pointed out that in this case the judges did not do that, and that nowhere in the judgment does it say that his brother was in the wrong, but that he has to take it all because he is a "public figure".

"He is not a public figure, but it doesn't matter," added Vucic.

Also, he pointed out that some people in Montenegro will have to, at some point, face someone who is not afraid of one of the leaders of the Kavac clan, Radoje Zvicer, and his media minions.

"I will go to Tivat so that all those 'very brave' people who make their living on my family can explain it to me, because they know that I can't respond to them every day all day long, because I have much more important work to do. So they will have to face someone who is not afraid of Zvicer or his media and all other servants, who is able to respond to them all. So that will be interesting, it will be fun in any case, if I survive," said the president.

Also, the president of Serbia pointed out that those who protect what he called the two biggest (criminal) clans in Europe and in the greater part of the world have once again shown their power and nothing more than that.

"Look at their media, see what that is like. Those who say that there is something going on in Serbia, they punish television stations, they punish you because of one show. They are bothered by one show, and they just omitted to say what is not true in all of that. They are persecuting people because of one show. Every day, 500 reports containing the worst lies, the worst slop from Ivanovic's Vijesti and everyone else. There is no kind of rubbish they have not created," said Vucic.

(Telegraf.rs/Tanjug)