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Vucic comments on protest in Backi Petrovac: Police are doing their job, don't 
make mountain out of molehill
Dragica Ranković
3–4 minutes
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[Predsednik Vučić]
Photo:Tanjug.rs
Serbian President Aleksandar 
Vucic<https://www.telegraf.rs/teme/aleksandar-vucic> spoke today from Backi 
Petrovac, a town in norther Serbia he visited together with Slovak President 
Peter Pellegrini.
A joint meeting was held with representatives of the Slovak national minority 
in the province of Vojvodina.
"I am proud of Slovaks in Serbia who have always shown respect towards our 
country. I am grateful to Pellegrini for the Slovak community here always being 
supportive," said the president and added that they will look for ways to 
provide as much assistance as possible to all municipalities in Serbia where 
ethnic Slovaks live.
"We have agreed to build the Slovak House in Novi Sad, and it will not cost 
less than 6 to 7 million euros. Serbia will take it upon itself. I'm happy 
about that. Thank you to everyone who attended the meeting today. I thank the 
president of Slovakia, Pellegrini, for the visit and how much importance he 
attaches to brotherhood and friendship with the Serbian people," Vucic said and 
added that he hopes they would make progress.
100 meters from the municipality building, in a park, a peaceful protest by an 
informal group of citizens of Backi Petrovac was ongoing since 10:00 in the 
morning, parallel to another rally in support of the president, a situation 
Vucic has now commented on.
"The police do their work according to the top priority. They (protesters) felt 
it was important to be able to come and say that someone prevented them from 
doing something, but they received an official invitation to speak. I get it, 
making a mountain out of a molehill, but don't present them as something big 
and a gathering of a great force," Vucic said about the protest.
Vucic and Pellegrini were welcomed in front of the building by local leaders, 
headed by the mayor of the municipality, Viera Krstovski, together with the 
president of the provincial government of Vojvodina, Maja Gojkovic, as well as 
the residents of Backi Petrovac who carried flags of Serbia and Slovakia.
Presidents Vucic and Pellegrini were welcomed with bread and salt, presented by 
a boy in Serbian national costume and a girl in Slovak costume.
The president of Serbia will today also attend the ceremonial opening of a 
sports hall in Putinci, near Ruma.
The beginning of the event is at 18:00, the Presidency of Serbia has announced.
(Telegraf.rs)

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