Serbian security chief resigns under U.S. pressure

Belgrade, Nov 3 (Prensa Latina) The head of Serbia's Information and Security Agency (BIA), Aleksandar Vulin, resigned today to calm tensions between his government and Washington, the Tanjug agency reported.

November 3, 2023
13:36

The United States had long pressured the Belgrade government and imposed sanctions on Serbia’s former security chief, who was accused of provoking riots in the Balkans, Tanjug reported.

According to his own statements, Vulin resigned voluntarily to avoid restrictions the U.S. threatened to apply against his homeland.

He compared the White House pressures to the imperialism of the Austro-Hungarian Kingdom before World War I, the news agency reported.

The founder of the Socialists’ Movement (SP) explained that corruption accusations were not the real reason for the blackmail of Serbia by the United States and Western governments, Tanjug reported.

Vulin, who was also a former head of the Office for Kosovo, criticized the anti-Russian hysteria in Europe that has existed since the Russian special operation in Ukraine, announced on February 24 last year by President Vladimir Putin to protect the uprising population of the Donbas region.

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