Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said that he expects his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to attend the “One Belt, One Road” summit in China in October. He said on air on Happy TV.
“In October, I will make a big visit to the People’s Republic of China within the framework of the One Belt, One Road programme. The big question is what will be there; President Putin is also expected,” Vucic said.
He noted that he had received “another important invitation” but could not give details yet.
Putin’s last meeting with Vucic took place at the end of November 2021 in Sochi. They discussed Russian gas supplies to the country. At the time, the Russian president said that since the last meeting in June 2020, the countries had accumulated many questions for each other.
On 1 June, Vucic recounted that he had not spoken to Putin for more than a year because of the prejudice of Western countries. He said he had seen many EU leaders but had not done so himself because in that case “everyone would say, ‘Look at the Serbs’.”
“What they want to forbid us, they allow themselves,” the president noted.
In July, Vucic said that refusing to impose sanctions against Russia was Serbia’s moral position.
“Do we make money from this or not? No. Do we have a lot of problems because of it? Yes, we do. Am I sure that we will hold out further? No, I’m not sure,” he said.
Prior to that, he repeatedly said that Serbia was under pressure because of its refusal to impose sanctions against Russia.
Thus, according to the Serbian president, if Belgrade had imposed restrictions against Moscow, then the United States would not have put the head of the Serbian Security and Information Agency, Aleksandar Vulin, a close associate of Vucic, on the sanctions list.
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