MP accuses new minister of lobbying for Rio Tinto

NEWS 26.10.202219:02
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The new Serbian Government is planning to continue the project of opening a lithium mine with the Rio Tinto company, People’s Party MP Ivana Parlic told the Serbian Parliament, triggering heated reactions.

Parlic said the project’s “biggest lobbyists” are Prime Minister Designate Ana Brnabic, candidate for Mining Minister Dubravka Djedovic Negre and the chief of staff to the Serbian President, Ivica Kojic.

“The ruin of Serbia is in the heart of the Rio Tinto project. With your proposal for the new government line-up you sent a message to Rio Tinto that you are ready to continue the project. You are leasing our land and that of our children to foreigners. You say that our children need the Internet, but before that they need clean air, water, healthy food and land,” Ivana Parlic told Brnabic at the Serbian Parliament sitting on Wednesday.

Parlic said the authorities in Serbia have “copied the law of the African state of Congo in order to serve Rio Tinto and the other new occupiers of Serbia,” which is why criminal complaints have been filed against the Prime Minister and former Minister for “high treason.”

“You brought in a new minister, Dubravka Djedovic Negre, but the agenda is the old one. Dubravka Djedovic Negre comes from the European Investment Bank, which is the biggest lithium investor, and she was also a propagandist, she reported for the CNN from Belgrade, and Rio Tinto needs propaganda, but there is no propaganda that can cover up the murder of Serbia,” said Parlic.