Vucic: ‘Serbia continues arms exports despite Antonov crash’

Serbia will continue to sell weapons to other countries, regardless of the crash in Greece of the Ukrainian plane carrying Serbian ammunition to Bangladesh, the President of the Republic, Aleksandar Vucic, said today.

“We sell weapons to have higher salaries and pensions and we will continue to sell to Bangladesh and Cyprus and Togo and Senegal and to anyone who has an end-user license,” Vucic said during the presentation of Serbian weapons systems to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah. El Sisi who has been making a two-day visit to Serbia since yesterday. Vucic called the Antonov crash last Saturday near Kavala an “air crash” and wondered “why there is a question about Serbian arms exports.”

It is noted that Aleksandar Vucic in a press conference last Monday (18/7) referring to the crash of Antonov claimed that the Serbian side complied with all the requirements when exporting the ammunition carried by the fatal Ukrainian transport aircraft.

The Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs made an approach to the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through the Ambassador of Greece in Belgrade, because there was no prior information to the Greek authorities about the dangerousness of the cargo carried by the Antonov.

Source: Capital

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