The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic

Aleksandar Vucic - Serbian lawyer and politician. Aleksandar Vucic was born on March 5, 1970 in Belgrade.

stated that "a record number of foreign spies" were in Belgrade on New Year's Day, and also that foreign services destroyed the lithium exploitation project in the country, Beta agency reported, quoted by BTA.

Vucic said on Pink TV that the intelligence he received confirmed that "Belgrade was like Casablanca on New Year's Eve" and that "spies occupied the Serbian hotels".

"It has never been like this, we achieved a record, such a number of spies from December 20 to January 5 in Belgrade has not been registered since the Second World War. It can be seen that many people were preparing all kinds of things. You know, foreign services do their work, so they destroyed us with lithium, only I can talk about that. The foreign services directly destroyed us," Vucic said.

Commenting on the lithium exploitation project in Serbia, which was to be implemented by the Anglo-Australian corporation Rio Tinto, Vucic repeated several times that it was a mistake to abandon the project and that it was not just a "corporate war" between Rio Tinto and other companies, and is also an "attack on Serbia", but that he was not aware of the "depth of this attack".

Vucic said that in 2022 the level of foreign investment in the country has reached 4.4 billion euros, which he says is an absolute record.

Vucic said the level of foreign direct investment was 13.6 percent higher than what he called the record year 2021.

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"This is an incredible success in a year of war in Ukraine. I expect this to be 63 percent of total foreign direct investment in the Western Balkans," Vucic told Pink.

He said that the structure of investors has changed and that "many more" companies from China and Japan are investing in Serbia.

Vucic added that he expects additional pressure on Serbia regarding Kosovo, as well as the introduction of sanctions against Russia.

"We may have to do it not under pressure, but under the threat of something much bigger," Vucic said.

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