{"id":34269,"date":"2022-04-13T15:49:48","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T13:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=34269"},"modified":"2022-04-13T18:21:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T16:21:23","slug":"vucic-defends-arms-purchase-from-china-as-legitimate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/vucic-defends-arms-purchase-from-china-as-legitimate\/","title":{"rendered":"Vucic defends arms purchase from China as \u2018legitimate\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Wednesday that buying arms from China is \u2018completely legitimate, transparent\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>According to local media N1, the president&#8217;s office released a statement saying that the FK-3 missile defense does not pose any threats, and should not be seen as such.<\/p>\n<p>The Serbian President accused his Montenegrin counterpart Milo Djukanovic and Kosovo PM Albin Kurti of \u2018spreading hate against Serbs and Serbia\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKurti and Djukanovic always use lies in order to show themselves as the victims, and Serbia as the aggressor. They are not able to explain how could Serbia be dangerous if it is equipped with a defense system\u201d, said Vucic.<\/p>\n<p>He also dismissed Kurti\u2019s statement that Serbia is arming up out of fears that it might remain alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Wednesday that buying arms from China is \u2018completely legitimate, transparent\u2019. According to local media N1, the president&#8217;s office released a statement saying that the FK-3 missile defense does not pose any threats, and should not be seen as such. The Serbian President accused his Montenegrin counterpart Milo Djukanovic and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":34270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[1206,932,1205,300,151,460,301,787],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Vucic defends arms purchase from China as \u2018legitimate\u2019 - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/vucic-defends-arms-purchase-from-china-as-legitimate\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vucic defends arms purchase from China as \u2018legitimate\u2019 - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Wednesday that buying arms from China is \u2018completely legitimate, transparent\u2019. 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