Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said tonight that a student protest is scheduled for March 15 in Belgrade, in front of the Serbian Parliament, and that between 60.000 and 80.000 participants from all over Serbia are expected.
He told Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) that there are estimates that there will be fewer than 60.000 people, and stated that all those who behave violently will be arrested.
He claims that "the most serious crimes will be committed" on Saturday and says the state must "stop it as soon as possible."
"Violence will not be avoided, plans have already been made that we know about... It has been agreed which people will go with eggs, which with stones, and which with torches towards the Parliament," he said.
He also said that authorities are trying to process "some of these individuals" before Saturday.
"It's almost impossible to avoid violence, because I know those thugs from political parties... They're trying to take advantage of these blockade kids... but after that it's over and the state will do its job," he said.
Vučić also said that the government has information about everything that is being prepared, as he claims, and stated that the students will "work together" from four directions - from Trg Republike, Novi Beograd, Autokomanda...
He also said that state authorities, if necessary, will protect students who are camping in Pioneer Park, demanding that classes at faculties begin by March 17th.
He asked the students in the blockades not to allow themselves to be used, as he put it, by politicians for "their dirty goals."
Vučić said that his job as president of the country is to ask, especially young people, not to participate in violence.
He said he could say "with certainty" that "students will lose a year," adding that "the end will be sounded on Saturday" because people can no longer tolerate violence.
He assessed that the demands of the students in the blockades had been met, adding that everyone knew that and reiterated that there would be no transitional government, as the opposition is demanding.
Vučić said that the person designated to form the Serbian Government will only be discussed once the resignation of Prime Minister Miloš Vučević is confirmed.
He believes that a transitional government would be "death for Serbia, the end of a modern, successful and prosperous Serbia". "And to be honest, I think that would mean a return to power without elections and without the will of the people, those who are the worst in our country".
The announced session on the situation in RS and BiH will be postponed.
The President of Serbia stated that he would ask the President of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, to schedule his visit to the Serbian Parliament for another day and added that the session on the situation in RS and BiH, which was planned for March 14, 15 and 16, would be postponed.
"I apologize to President Dodik. I will ask him tomorrow, I spoke to him today, but before I see that these people have definitely decided to resort to violence... so, I will ask President Dodik to schedule his visit to the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia for another day. And they knew that we had made arrangements with President Dodik for the 14th, 15th and 16th. And they didn't mind and they are in front of the National Assembly again, probably to harass President Dodik and the entire Assembly and everything else. Because they don't care. The plenums, assemblies and other idiocies that we have to hear about are decided," Vučić said, as reported by RTS.
He disagrees with the messages from Washington regarding Dodik.
Vučić said he disagreed with messages from Washington that Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik was undermining the stability of the institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH).
"I will talk and do my best to talk to American representatives and present them with a different argument," Vučić told RTS.
US Senator from the ruling Republican Party, Chuck Grassley, stated earlier today that Dodik supports separatist policies in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but that Croatian separatists in that country have now also taken that path.
"Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik supports separatism in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Now Bosnian Croats, the separatists, have also taken action," Grassley wrote on the social network X.
A few days earlier, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that Dodik was "undermining BiH and its security and stability".
Vučić noted that "today (NATO Secretary General) Mark Rutte was in Sarajevo," and that he had recently spoken with him, and announced that they would talk again in Brussels on March 19th.
"And on the 24th, I'm going to Brussels to talk with (European officials) Antonio Costa and Von der Leyen, if I'm not mistaken. Don't take my word for it, plus or minus one day," Vučić said.
The political activities of Dodik, on whose orders laws were passed prohibiting the operation of state judicial institutions of BiH and the Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) on the territory of the RS, have been condemned in recent days by Great Britain and the most powerful EU countries - Germany, France and Italy.
These laws were passed after the Court of BiH convicted Dodik in the first instance for failing to implement the decisions of the High Representative in BiH.
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