On the anniversary of the bombing of Yugoslavia by NATO troops, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic asked the leadership of the North Atlantic bloc who gave the alliance the right to kill local residents.
“24 years have passed since you took part of the country from us, killed children and civilians, soldiers and police. Where did you obtain the right to kill our soldiers and our policemen, who gave you this right? – RIA Novosti reports his words.
The Serbian leader noted that NATO troops had carried out an attack on a sovereign and free state, stressing that the alliance’s representatives justified the bombings by the desire to avoid a “humanitarian catastrophe”.
“You haven’t prevented any humanitarian catastrophe, you’ve armed rebel groups in a free and sovereign country that hasn’t trod a single span, not a foot on the territory of another state,” Vučić said.
When the initiators of the NATO aggression realized they could not get formal legal approval from the UN Security Council, they decided to do without it, the Serbian leader said. After that, according to Vucic, 19 members of the North Atlantic bloc gathered and attacked his country.
Earlier, US Ambassador to Serbia Christopher Hill expressed his condolences to the families of those killed in the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia and hoped that the Serbian people would forget their grievances. He noted that the American commitment to the partnership with Serbia is unwavering. The two countries, he said, can together build a better future that the Serbian people deserve.
Vučić asking NATO leadership who gave the alliance the right to bomb Yugoslavia in 1999
