THE PRESIDENT OF SERBIA MADE A PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT! Vučić: You came to the verdict with lies, I talked to Novak on the phone!

Novak was rejected by the Australian Federal Court early this morning in Central European Time against his visa revocation decision and will have to be deported from that country.

- I talked to Novak a while ago, and I encouraged him, and I told him that I can't wait for him to come to Serbia and return to his country, and to be where he is always welcome. To harass the best tennis player for 11 days, and to only then give him the verdict you made on the very first day - the President of the Republic of Serbia began by saying this. 

Aleksandar Vučić added that the Australian authorities used lies:

- You have seen in the most meaningless court process how much the prosecutor is lying. They simply lie. They say that less than 50 percent of citizens of Serbia have been vaccinated, and officially it is 58 percent. Remember that this is more than in many EU countries. That was a meaningless argument, but in Orwell's plays even that is possible. 

In the end, he referred to the fact that athletes from Australia will soon come to Serbia.

- We will welcome Australian athletes in a much better way in March, and we will not agonise them for the sake of the elections. They are coming to the athletics championship, and we will show that we are better than the Australian government, and I wish to thank the Australian people, who I am sure love Serbs. They think that they humiliated Djoković, but they humiliated themselves, and he can return to his country and look everyone in the eye with his head held high.

The President then repeated all that in English, at the request of journalists, so that foreign media could also convey his message.