Vucic: Pristina's new security strategy would mean that they want an escalation of the conflict

I hoped that the temporary Pristina institutions would not try to implement the strategy that they were devising and according to which their forces would be on the territory of the whole of Kosovo and Metohija, the President of Serbia said in response to a journalist's question of what the devising of that strategy meant and whether it was pressure on Serbia, RTV reports.

"We will talk about that. I don't think it will happen easily because it would mean that there is no longer any trace of any agreement. This means that they want an escalation of the conflict and nothing else," Vucic said.

The President of Serbia said that the country was not a toy but a sacred place that had to be protected and that only a country with serious and responsible leadership could build its country without increasing the public debt.

"We tried in previous years to show that we can build much more than the people of this country did in previous generations, and we succeeded thanks to a serious and responsible policy. Only a successful country and a successful one is one that is responsible and serious, which has a serious and responsible leadership, can build its country without increasing the public debt at the same time," Vucic said.

He pointed out that, according to the latest data, the public debt today was 51.5 percent, which was better than more than 92 percent of the EU countries.

"At the same time, we are investing more than 90 percent of it in road and railway infrastructure. This is a success for Serbia, but also for all our citizens. That is why it is important to continue this kind of responsible policy in the future," Vucic said.

He said that he had received official data on the budget, according to which Serbia, for which he congratulated Minister Sinisa Mali, had had in the first three months instead of a budget deficit of 74.9 billion Serbian dinars or about 680 million euros, 28.6 billion Serbian dinars or 245 million euros.