Seal: Serbia to hold military exercises with China

Serbia's Defence Minister, Aleksandar Vulin, said Serbia will not join NATO “until Aleksandar Vuciq (President of Serbia) and this parliamentary majority are at the helm of the country”.

He warned that Serbia, for the first time, will hold military exercises with China during the coming year.

“We are co-operating with NATO, but we are also co-operating with the countries of the former Soviet Union under the Kolektive Security Treaty. These countries do not ask us to give up part of the” territory, Vulin said in the Serbian parliament.

He said military neutrality is the expensive “”, but there is no pressure to give up this policy, because he added “you are not a free country if someone else saves you the” sky.

Serbia has held military exercises with Russia during October.

Serbia's president, Aleksandar Vuciq, had declared he is impressed by what Russian land-air systems can do.

Serbia, which was bombed by NATO in 1999 due to violence in Kosovo, opposes membership in the alliance, sends relief.

Russia also opposes NATO enlargement with Balkan countries.

In November, the US Department of Defence has issued a document in which Serbia-Russia relations have reportedly been strengthened since Vuciqi's coming to power in 2012.