NATO bombardment of the former Yugoslavia with depleted uranium munitions are an unprecedented crime, reports TASS statement of Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić.
Today, the Cancer Institute, I learned, what, Unfortunately, we have more and more children, cancer patients. I will be sincere: I never fully believed in all our theories on depleted uranium, that all the fault of those, who destroyed and bombed the country in 1999 year. But today, in a conversation with the doctors I knew, what, of course, there is a lot of cancer growth factors among children, but depleted uranium exactly is one of them, as it often is fixed in children, whose parents were born around 1990, Vucic said at the opening of the medical institution.
According to him, "Regardless of the evidence, all doctors believe, that the bombing left a significant impact ".
This unprecedented crime, and we as a country will deal with this very serious, President stressed.
Earlier, Serbian academician Ljubisa Rakic said, that "volumes of depleted uranium, got into the territory of the Balkan countries during the NATO aggression, It would be enough to create 170 atomic bombs, like the one, which the United States dropped on Hiroshima 6 August 1945 of the year". he noted, that the most frequent consequences of depleted uranium for human health - "thyroid disease, malignancies, and various mutations of the fetus during pregnancy ".
NATO's military operation against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia began in March 1999 of the year. The main cause of offensive air operation "Allied Force" (Allied Force) NATO leaders called "prevention of genocide of the Albanian population in Kosovo".
