Vucic: I am going to Montenegro, it is important that I represent Serbia there

BELGRADE - Speaking to reporters after a meeting with European Council President Antonio Costa, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday he would attend the EU-Western Balkans Summit in Tivat, Montenegro, in spite of a warning from the Serbian Security and Information Agency that his life was in danger.

"As far as the Security and Information Agency is concerned, I have received a letter and I have read it. Of course, I did not discuss it with Mr Costa, but I am going to Montenegro and it is very important that I represent Serbia, so everything is normal," Vucic said at a press conference with Costa.

Vucic was responding to a question whether he had seen the Agency's warning, whether he would cancel the trip to Tivat as a result and whether he had discussed the security threat with Costa.

He noted that he would be speaking about other things in Montenegro - not in Belgrade.

"I will go down there and say to everyone's faces all I have to say about the various games where Serbia is portrayed as 'Little Russia' and they are portrayed approximately like the Baltic states, always threatened by us, and so on. So, I will be speaking about that, but in Montenegro. You know, I will be speaking about that, too, down there since I am not afraid of speaking the truth," he said.

On Wednesday evening, the Security and Information Agency advised Vucic against travelling to Tivat and warned that activities of crime clans in Montenegro posed a threat to his life.