BELGRADE, March 19. /TASS/. The North Atlantic Alliance is looking to weaken Serbia and impose its own government on the Balkan country that would confront Russia despite the will of the Serbian people, former Serbian Security Intelligence Agency Director Aleksandar Vulin said in an interview with Russian magazine Natsionalnaya Oborona (National Defense).
"In the Balkans, just like anywhere else globally, the West pursues its own interests exclusively, and these interests include seeking to break up the largest, and in most cases, the only state-forming nation in the Balkans, the Serbs, into several separate countries and weaken it as much as possible," Vulin, the founder of Serbia’s left-wing Movement of Socialists party, said.
According to the politician, "NATO is doing everything to impose a government on the Serbs that would oppose Russia, despite the will of the Serbian people." The bloc has expanded its control over the entire Balkans, except for Serbia and Republika Srpska, creating a hostile space for anything that comes from Russia, he said. "As all Balkan countries, except Serbia, as well as Bosnia and Herzegovina, are members of the North Atlantic Alliance and are fully controlled by the EU, the United States and Great Britain, the West is seeking to place the territory where the Serbs live and make decisions under its full control," he said.
NATO is primarily seeking to overturn Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, as installing an obedient government in Belgrade would solve all their problems, Vulin said. "Such a government would recognize so-called Kosovo, join the Western sanctions on Russia, take sides with NATO allies and refuse to support Republika Srpska," he concluded.
Vucic has repeatedly emphasized that, despite NATO’s broad pressure, his country was set to maintain its military neutrality, nor would it enter any military blocs. While Serbia is ready to put into practice the pledges it has made earlier, as it is seeking compromises with a view to normalizing relations with Pristina, recognizing Kosovo’s independence or its UN membership are inadmissible, Vucic warned.