Vucic from New York: I expect to meet with probably the most powerful man in the USA; All night preparations

At the beginning of his address, the president mentioned the meeting with the general director of "Philip Morris", about the plans of this company for investment in our country.

"It's mine to take care of the economy, and that will bring us new jobs," he said.

"We had a meaningful conversation with President Erdogan. We did not agree on everything related to Kosovo and Metohija. We are expecting his visit. We should solve all problems in a friendly spirit. We will succeed in such a friendly way," he said.

"We will start awarding decorations, I see that some people are mad that we are honoring people who protected Serbia. I see that they would be happy to ban us, so they are saying in the neighboring countries that we lost, why are you protesting if we lost?" he pointed out.

He added that there will be more important talks.

"There will be meetings with 30 to 40 different representatives from all over the world. Then the whole night of preparation for tomorrow, I can see how everyone is interested in who will say what. Now we are watching who speaks first, who will say what, who will answer and so on. They gave Lavrov to speak on Thursday, just to reduce the number of bilaterals... We have a good slot. Here, the U.S. President is always the third, we are in the first 12-13 speakers. We'll see what and how much they'll say, we've already changed draft of the speech this morning and last night, tomorrow we'll have the final version. I'm expecting a meeting with Jake Sullivan, probably the most powerful man in the USA," he added.

About the conflict in the Middle East

"Erdogan is now announcing that there is going to be a full conflict in the Middle East. I hope that the Americans will manage to control it. They have 'leverage' in both countries, if they fail to control it, it will go down the drain," he said.

"You can live without bread, you can't live without peace. This is not going in the right direction in Ukraine. Everyone is talking about peace, but ostensibly peace so that 'we can defeat the others', but I see that there are more and more leaders in the world who want to be encouraged to express their opinion as best as possible. Pandora's box was opened in 1999 and 2008. Then both boxes were opened. To bomb, to violate international public norms, and when you have done both of these things, then what do you expect in the future".

''That's why our people are offended. We support the territorial integrity of Ukraine, but then you wonder why you have caused the anger and rage of people in Serbia. 'We are big and we can do everything,'" he pointed out.

"They refer to Churchill so that they would like to go to war and do stupid things. The less knowledge and education, the more stupidity, and the results are visible. Today you have the most powerful countries in the world that have 0.1, 0.2 and 0.3 growth rates. There is a war on the territory of Russia, and where will it end? There must be a minimum common denominator, they are not talking about victory. It will be as I predicted, unfortunately," he said about the war in Ukraine.

About the situation on Kosovo and Metohija

"I am not threatening anyone, Albanians from Kosovo are threatening everyone in turn, we will see how it will unfold," said the president.

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