24.04.2019.
Minister Vulin: They did not manage to kill Serbia, but they did kill international law
Serbia led by President Vučić recovered, but international law did not
“The false state of Kosovo and the attempt to create Greater Albania are still the biggest threats in the Balkans. The tragedy of 1999, when 19 NATO countries carried out an act of aggression against Serbia, served us to learn a lesson that without the international law and the system of collective security the world is going into a tragedy and an accident”, Defence Minister Aleksandar Vulin said, participating in the 8th Moscow Conference on International Security, at the invitation of his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu.
In his presentation “Security of the Balkans between global challenges and regional heritage” Minister Vulin pointed out that Serbia chose to be a militarily neutral country and would never be a member of any military alliance, no matter if it is the last non-NATO country in Europe.
Minister Vulin reminded that in 1999, 19 large and powerful countries tried to kill one small and free country. "The world was silent at that time, both those who loved us and those who did not love us chose to turn their heads and in 1999 we were alone. In 1999, after tens of our children were killed, after our economy was destroyed, after our soldiers and policemen were killed, after they tried to expel us for good out of the villages and towns where we have always lived, exactly 20 years ago, they tried to kill Serbia but they killed the international law. Serbia led by President Aleksandar Vučić recovered, but international law did not. Serbia is still alive, but international law is still dead”, Minister Vulin said.
In 1999, the unipolar world experienced its peak. Everything was allowed, everything was possible. Force was justified for itself. You did not need to justify attacking anyone, taking or seizing anything. In 1999, the unipolar world died because free nations realised that what was told to them about the rule of human rights, about democracy as a universal value, is just an excuse for the rule of the big and powerful ones”, Minister Vulin said.
Minister Vulin recalled that, a year ago, in the same place, he said that the biggest threat to peace in the Balkans is a fake Kosovo state led by terrorists.
“I said then that the absence of an independent policy of EU member states calls for and encourages illegal migration. A year ago, I told you that the project of “Greater Albania”, the country that was drawn up in the Second World War on fascist maps, was the biggest threat to peace in the Balkans. My claims were not disproved over time, and I am not happy about that. In this year, the world has not learned anything about my piece of the world. The Brussels agreement that we have reached investing great efforts and great sacrifices in the hope of preserving peace is not respected just as the Resolution 1244 is not respected either. No one is responsible for the murdered victims of my people and there is even no tribunal for that. Even now, violating their own laws, the fake Kosovo state has made a paramilitary led by commanders of the terrorist formations. Giving terrorists heavy weapons and hoping for peace is insanity rather than politics. That paramilitary is led by terrorists who have not been convicted not because they are not guilty but because all witnesses in international courts of justice were brutally killed. No one was alive to testify. The creation of Greater Albania as an attempt to resolve the Albanian national issue is actually an attempt to modify and justify the failure of the formation of the Kosovo state and the biggest threat in the Balkans. The one who thinks he can, at the expense of all Balkan peoples, solve the Albanian national issue by making them a greater state, he must know that he is playing with big fire and calling for an accident. In a small area like the Balkans, you cannot deny Serbs what you grant to Albanians, Minister Vulin said.
This year, defence ministers from 35 countries participate in the 8th Moscow Conference on International Security.
