Responding to a statement by Croatian Foreign Minister Gordan Grlic-Radman, Serbia's Minister of the Interior Aleksandar Vulin said on Tuesday that the phrase "Serbian world" is not a call for conflict but a "response to the political and physical violence against Serbs outside Serbia."

On Monday Grlic-Radman said that the phrase “Serbian world” was a policy of conquest that had been defeated.

On Monday, a day after the unrest in Montenegro caused by the inauguration of the new Serbian Orthodox Church's bishop in that country, Vulin said that the task of today's generation of Serbian politicians was “to create a Serbian world to protect Serbs” and that otherwise, he was afraid “there won't be a next generation of Serbs”.

“We would like to know what is a ‘Serbian world'”, Grlic-Radman said on Monday.

“All those policies of invasion, conquest, hegemony have been defeated. There is no room for such policies here and we will strongly defend ourselves against any form of them,” the Croatian minister told reporters in a comment on Vulin's statement.

Vulin's office on Tuesday issued a press release, noting that “Grlic-Radman didn't see any reason to condemn the rampage in Cetinje and he doesn't see any problem in the violent attempts to make members of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) the only religious community in Europe that goes to pray to God in its monastery under armed escort, but he does see a problem in Serbia's not willing to remain silent in the face of violence and humiliation.”

Vulin said the “Serbian world” is not a call for conflict but a “response to the political and physical violence against Serbs, to the silence about the atrocities committed in Storm (the 1995 Croatian military and police liberation operation), to the ridiculing of Serbs killed in the Drina river valley.”

“‘A Serbian world’ is emerging so that the Jasenovac genocide is not repeated and a Great Albania is not created without any defence or resistance, and to bring together and encourage unity among Serbs in Republika Srpska when they are forced, under threat of imprisonment, to accept that they are a genocidal nation,” Vulin said in response to Grlic-Radman's comment on the increasingly frequent expression “Serbian world”, which Belgrade sees as an option for the national homogenisation of Serbs in the region.

“Serbs have become a single political nation and no one can deny them that right,” said Vulin.