Deputy Prime Minister Vulin: EU dare not demand that Serbia impose sanctions against Russia
The European Union cannot demand that Serbia impose sanctions against Russia because of the principle of inviolability of borders in relation to Ukraine when the EU and NATO are discussing the issue of Serbian borders in Kosovo and Metohija, Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vulin said.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko conducted a working visit to Serbia on 1-2 July, where he met with President Aleksandar Vucic and members of the government. In connection with this visit, the EU press service told Western media that “relations with Russia cannot be ordinary” and once again called on official Belgrade to harmonise its policy with Brussels.
“When the EU demands Serbia to impose sanctions against Russia because of the principle of inviolability of borders, then the statement of the EU press office should be read again and checked if it is not a false news or some kind of artificial intelligence throw-in. How else to understand that we are being asked to agree that every country’s borders are sacred and Ukraine’s are sacred, but Serbia’s borders are a matter of treaty between EU and NATO members. Serbia is a small state, but not so small that it can give up itself and its right to choose friends,” the press service quoted Vulin as saying.
The Serbian president said on June 26 that Kosovo Albanian “prime minister” Albin Kurti did not want to meet with him in Brussels as part of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue. Previously, the Serbian leadership has repeatedly pointed to the failure of the Pristina authorities to fulfil their 2013 and 2015 commitments to form the Community of Serbian Communities in Kosovo and Metohija.
In 1999, an armed confrontation between Albanian separatists from the Kosovo Liberation Army and Serbian security forces led to the bombing of the FRY (then consisting of Serbia and Montenegro) by NATO forces. The military operation was undertaken without the approval of the UN Security Council on the basis of the Western countries’ claim that the FRY authorities allegedly carried out ethnic cleansing in the Kosovo autonomy and provoked a humanitarian catastrophe there. North Atlantic Alliance air strikes continued from 24 March to 10 June 1999.
The NATO bombings caused over 2,500 deaths, including 87 children, and $100 billion in damage, and medical experts have documented the effects of depleted uranium leading to an increase in cancer.
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