MOSCOW: The EU is starting the process of imposing sanctions on Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vulin following his speech in th...
MOSCOW: The EU is starting the process of imposing sanctions on Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vulin following his speech in the European Parliament on Wednesday, where he commented on relations with Brussels and Moscow, a source told TASS.
"We have learned that after today’s speech, the EU started the process of putting Mr. Vulin on the sanctions list. The procedure was started today, and it should be completed within a few days," the person said.
According to the source, it is yet unclear exactly what sanctions will be levied.
Earlier on Wednesday, Vulin told the European Parliament that Serbia will never go to war with Russia in exchange for EU membership, according to a copy of his speech obtained by TASS. He said Serbia for 20 years has been fulfilling "every wish and demand" of the EU but was told the bloc will admit Ukraine and Moldova as next members, even though they haven’t yet met a single condition to join.
He also rejected a chance of Serbia imposing sanctions on Russia. Serbia will not "do something so low as imposing sanctions on Russia because of a conflict that could have been avoided if you had just respected the Minsk Agreement."
He also told TASS that Brussels had devised a plan to overthrow Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic with the support of Western intelligence services.
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