Vucevic: Every day of blockades, strikes carries high economic cost for Serbia

BELGRADE - Serbia's caretaker PM Milos Vucevic said on Tuesday every day of blockades, strikes and traffic halts in Serbia carried a high economic cost for the country, and noted that this was not a good invitation to investors wishing to come to Serbia.

"We had the worst January in I do not know how many years as far as economic results are concerned. When someone talks about a civil war starting in Serbia, when someone talks about carrying out a revolution in Serbia, when someone in Serbia says they will block roads, motorways, bridges, that is certainly not a good invitation to investors," Vucevic said after a session of the Social and Economic Council.

"All these things that are happening to us, every hour, every day of blockades and stopping life in Serbia carries an economic cost for us," Vucevic said.

He noted this was not a matter of political parties or popularity, but a matter of life for all Serbians.

"I hope everyone is aware of that, that employees and employers are aware of that, and pensioners, too, are certainly aware of that. All these things that are being done to us have serious economic consequences, negative economic consequences for our state. I hope we will get out of this situation as soon as possible and that politics will return to where it belongs - to the parliament, to debates, to the media, and that students will return to their study commitments, that professors will return to teaching and that pupils will return to schools and that we will continue our economic development," Vucevic said.

We cannot have a better life with "blockades and by stopping life in Serbia," he added.