18. 06. 2014

Djukanovic warns Vucic

"With everything that has appeared in the public in the past 10 days, and regarding the atmosphere, my colleague Djukanovic is not far from the truth. I neither can nor want to warn those who are doing it. I can only ask them not to underestimate the government, because it will react faster and more powerfully than they can imagine," Vucic stated.

"All those who think they will be able to take down the Serbian government and defeat its institutions are wrong," he stressed in reply to Tanjug's request to comment on Djukanovic's warning after the press claims about the Montenegrin prime minister's alleged plan to attack the Serbian media.

"The govrenment is much stronger. You will see that in a very short while," Vucic remarked and thanked Djukanovic for his concern.

It has always been somewhat more difficult to be in politics in Serbia than in other places, he noted.

Serbia and Montenegro are in good and friendly relations, at their highest level since Montenegro's declaration of independence, he pointed out.

"I am in good and friendly relations with Prime Minister Djukanovic as well and I thank him for the concern he has shown," Vucic emphasised.

Djukanovic commented earlier on Tuesday on the claims made in the Belgrade press that he had started an open war against the Serbian media to place them under his control and expand his political influence. He said that those fabrications were not targeting him, and that he believed Vucic would decipher those texts correctly.

"It is plain nonsense and it, of course, has nothing to do with the truth," Djukanovic told Tanjug.

"It seems like the result of renewed anxiety among the security and media ranks caused by Serbia's reforms. I even believe that I am not the main target of this fabrication," he said.

"I believe my colleague and friend in Belgrade Aleksandar Vucic will decipher correctly these texts which are very reminiscent of those from 2003," he said in a statement delivered to Tanjug.

The Belgrade press cited an anonymous source claiming that Djukanovic had political ambitions in Serbia and wanted to influence the events in the country in the most direct way possible, both on the domestic and international stage, so he was preparing an attack on the media in Serbia, which included discrediting them.