Serbia to maintain military neutrality

Serbia will continue its policies of preserving its own interests and remaining militarily neutral to keep the region peaceful and stable, Serbian Defence Minister Aleksandar Vulin told a security conference in Moscow on Wednesday (April 4).  

“One is enough for war, it takes at least two for peace,” Vulin said.   According to him, most of the security threats in Europe are a result of the uni-polar world which has chosen Serbs as the enemy. He named the “unresolved status of Kosovo” as a threat to security.  

Vulin told the conference that Kosovo has failed to become a sustainable community with the highest unemployment rate in Europe, corruption, ethnic violence and large numbers of Islamic State members which makes it a security threat to both Serbia and Europe.

“Organized crime has spilled over from Kosovo and now fully controls the narcotics trade as well as part of the illegal arms trade and human trafficking in most of Western Europe,” the minister said.  

Vulin warned that the recognition of Kosovo brings “deep divisions into the very fabric of the European Union” which has underestimated the threat posed by the concept of a Greater Albania.