Serbia would seriously investigate the consequences of NATO bombardment using depleted uranium, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told Tanjug news agency.

Vucic who attended the opening of an oncology ward, said it was a crime without precedent. He added, he heard from the medics there is an increased number of children suffering from malign diseases.

“I have never fully believed in all the theories about depleted uranium, that those who bombarded us were to blame for everything. But today, while talking to the medics, although reasons are multifactorial, depleted uranium is certainly one of the reasons for malign diseases, it affects children whose parents were born around 1990.The medics think it has caused significant consequences. It is a crime without precedent,” Vucic underlined.

Meanwhile, B92 reported that the Serbian Assembly would start on Monday a session, and proposal to establish the Commission to investigate the consequences of NATO bombardment would be on its agenda.

Assembly Speaker, Maja Gojkovic on May 4, submitted a proposal to establish such Commission to the assembly procedures, saying “it is important to discover patterns of causal-consequential relations between a brutal bombardment of Serbia and increase of malign diseases and other serious illnesses, in particular over the use of depleted uranium”.

The Commission would work on the basis of the report received from a Chair of Italian Commission that speaks about death cases and serious illnesses caused by depleted uranium, while part of the report refers to the soldiers who were deployed to Kosovo.

Gojkovic earlier stated she expects the first report on the consequences of NATO bombardment to be completed by 2020, Serbian media reported.