Vucic: I will visit Turkey for important discussions with Erdogan

MLADENOVAC - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced on Friday he would pay an official visit to Turkey in the coming days and hold very important discussions with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and added that he would attend the Munich Security Conference after the trip to Ankara.

Speaking to reporters in Mladenovac, Vucic said Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev was due to visit Serbia on February 15.

"In the coming days, I will go to Turkey, Ankara, on an official visit, and I will have very important discussions with Recep Tayyip Erdogan. After that, I will go to Munich for the Security Conference, where I will quite certainly also have a bilateral meeting with Chinese FM Wang Yi. After that, President Aliyev is coming on February 15, at Sretenje (Serbian Statehood Day), which is very important for us," Vucic said, noting that Serbia was planning to build a gas-fired power plant with Azerbaijan.

"A day after that, I will be going to India (for a summit on artificial intelligence), where I will also have a bilateral meeting with PM Narendra Modi, as well as, I believe, with other world leaders. When we get back from there, we expect European representatives - Koopman and others - to come here. We will have dinner with them on the 20th or the 21st (of February). Immediately after that, I will be heading to Kazakhstan for a bilateral visit," Vucic said.

Vucic: Croatia's involvement in developments in Serbia no secret whatsoever

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday Croatia's involvement in developments in Serbia was no secret whatsoever and that that was now clear to everyone.

Asked by reporters to comment on incidents in Croatia that have marked the country's return to its "ustasha roots" and on evidence pointing to involvement of Croatian agencies in protests and blockades in Serbia, Vucic said it was no secret whatsoever that the Croatian state and Croatian media and politicians were involved in developments in Serbia.

"You do not need an intelligence service - foreign or any other - to establish that. Have a look with the naked eye today, and it will be clear to everyone, so there is no doubt about that. They are hoping that servants like those they had in power (in Serbia) from 2000 to 2012 will come - none of that has materialised after that," Vucic said.

Commenting on the Croatian ustasha ideology, which he referred to as the "ideology of the worst kind of Nazism", Vucic said its bare form was omnipresent in Croatia.

"They boast of it and take pride in it," he said.

Vucic: Serbia could produce its first humanoid robots within five months

MLADENOVAC - Serbia could produce its first humanoid robots and other types of robots within five months if it succeeds in ensuring sufficient quantities of electricity,Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday, adding that he would hold serious discussions about this with representatives of the national power company EPS.

"It is clear what kind of (educational) profiles of people we will need in the future and how much the world around us is changing, how much we are changing and what all the things that we must do are. I do not know whether you understand what kind of a quantum leap this is for this country and what we are becoming. We can even become the first country in Europe to produce that, but it depends on electricity," Vucic told reporters after the opening of the reconstructed Mladenovac Grammar School building.

He said he would have serious discussions about the matter with representatives of EPS, which he noted had "too much autonomy." "Let's look at the production part and at some other things, how we will produce 5 GW more in the next ten years. Those are things we need to deal with," Vucic said.

He noted that Serbia wanted to, as soon as possible, start producing humanoid robots capable of performing multiple roles.

"They would serve children in this dining hall, make them tea and coffee, do the dishes and iron whatever clothes anyone needs ironed," Vucic added.