European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen has canceled her deliberate talks with Serbian Prime Minister Milos Vucevic, citing his earlier assembly with a Russian official.
Von der Leyen arrived in Belgrade on Friday as a part of her Balkans tour. She met with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, and was supposed to satisfy Vucevic as properly.
“We canceled the assembly with the prime minister after his assembly with the Russian financial system minister,” the EU ambassador to Serbia Emmanuel Gioffre informed AFP, noting that Serbia had signaled intent to “strengthen its financial relations with Russia.”
Vucevic had met with Russian Financial Improvement Minister Maksim Reshetnikov, whom he thanked for Moscow’s assist for Serbia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
“Serbia drastically appreciates this assist and won’t neglect,” Vucevic stated. He additionally expressed thanks that Moscow invited Belgrade to participate within the BRICS summit in Kazan earlier this week.
Vucic had stated he wouldn’t attend, citing the visits by Von der Leyen and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, however a number of cupboard ministers and Deputy PM Aleksandar Vulin went to Kazan and took half within the BRICS conferences.
Reshetnikov conveyed Moscow’s appreciation for Serbia’s refusal to hitch the EU sanctions towards Russia. Serbia declared army neutrality and has repeatedly shrugged off strain from Brussels to “harmonize its international coverage” with that of the EU.
Each Vucic and the cupboard have identified greater than as soon as the hypocrisy and double requirements of the West in insisting on Ukraine’s borders, whereas demanding Serbia acknowledge its province of Kosovo as an unbiased state run by NATO-backed ethnic Albanians.
Serbia is formally decided to hitch the EU, however the bloc has conditioned its membership on sanctioning Russia and recognizing Kosovo – amongst different issues – which Vucic has vowed he would by no means do.
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