Defense minister: Critics of conference are quasi-patriots

Defense Minister Dragan Šutanovac has dismissed accusations leveled at NATO and its military conference ongoing in Belgrade as "nonsensical".

Izvor: FoNet

Wednesday, 15.06.2011.

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Defense Minister Dragan Sutanovac has dismissed accusations leveled at NATO and its military conference ongoing in Belgrade as "nonsensical". He said the criticism was voiced by "quasi-patriots". Defense minister: Critics of conference are quasi-patriots Among those who spoke against the NATO-organized conference were opposition parties, a left-wing group, and Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Irinej. But Sutanovac told Belgrade-based daily Blic that "when quasi-patriots attack NATO, they are forgetting that they are attacking Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, Norway, and that in this way they are inflicting damage to bilateral ties with these countries." "Serbia remains militarily neutral," he further stated. Sutanovac also asserted that "in seven days' time, or in a few months' time after the military conference in Belgrade, it will become obvious that attacks and accusations that this is a step Serbia is making toward the NATO membership are nonsense". "Then it will be clear that the opponents of the conference are making absolutely untrue statements and that nothing had changed dramatically in the relationship between NATO and Serbia. And that Serbia remains militarily neutral," concluded the minister. Dragan Sutanovac (Tanjug, file)

Defense minister: Critics of conference are quasi-patriots

Among those who spoke against the NATO-organized conference were opposition parties, a left-wing group, and Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Irinej.

But Šutanovac told Belgrade-based daily Blic that "when quasi-patriots attack NATO, they are forgetting that they are attacking Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, Norway, and that in this way they are inflicting damage to bilateral ties with these countries."

"Serbia remains militarily neutral," he further stated.

Šutanovac also asserted that "in seven days' time, or in a few months' time after the military conference in Belgrade, it will become obvious that attacks and accusations that this is a step Serbia is making toward the NATO membership are nonsense".

"Then it will be clear that the opponents of the conference are making absolutely untrue statements and that nothing had changed dramatically in the relationship between NATO and Serbia. And that Serbia remains militarily neutral," concluded the minister.

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