Serbia will continue to sell weapons to other countries, regardless of the recent crash of a Ukrainian plane in Greece that was carrying Serbian weapons for Bangladesh, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said in Belgrade.
During a tour of the display of weapons and military equipment of the Serbian Armed Forces from the domestic military industry, with the President of Egypt, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Vučić told reporters that he "does not understand the question of why Serbia sells weapons."
"We are selling in order to have higher salaries and pensions. And we will continue to sell, to Bangladesh and Cyprus and Togo and Senegal, to anyone who is a permitted end user," said Vučić at the Guard House in Topcider, where officials of the Ministry of Defense of Serbia presented the El- Sisius armored vehicles, rockets and other weapons.
Vučić said that tomorrow he will talk about the visit of the head of Hungarian diplomacy, Peter Sijart, to Moscow, where he discussed the possibility of supplying an additional amount of Russian gas to Hungary with the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergey Lavrov.
"Serbia has nothing against that meeting, but I would have something to say about how everyone treated Serbia (when Lavrov was supposed to come to Belgrade). We are not part of the EU and it is easy to raise a rant against someone they think is small and they are surprised how that small can be rude and lead an independent policy. You may be bothered by that kind of hypocrisy, but you have to get used to it," said Vučić.
Vučić was also asked whether he would ask Moscow for additional gas quantities since Lavrov said after the meeting with Sijarta that Russia would consider the possibility of increasing gas supplies to Hungary.
"I asked for additional quantities of gas (from Russia) last year as well, I asked several times, sometimes they took it into consideration, sometimes they didn't. I thank them for everything," said Vučić.
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