Army General Staff Chief: Serbia is currently not facing military threats

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Serbian Army General Staff Chief Gen. Ljubisa Dikovic says Serbia is currently not facing military threats, while "the security situation" is stable.

However, he added, threats do exist - through "pronounced extremism, and because of the migrant crisis."

"We are vigilantly monitoring and appraising the situation and the degree of the endangerment of Serbia on a daily basis, and the conclusion is that today Serbia is not militarily threatened," Dikovic has told RTS.

According to the general, the Serbian Army is "prepared to respond to all security threats" and today has at its disposal "the resources and equipment needed to respond to any possible risks."

"During the past several months the state of our Air Force was being addressed, which had somehow fallen the furthest behind. By solving that issue, we complete a whole,...