MOSCOW: Serbia will never forget Russia’s contribution to the struggle against Nazism, Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vulin tol...
MOSCOW: Serbia will never forget Russia’s contribution to the struggle against Nazism, Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vulin told TASS.
"We are not a nation of coward and betrayers. We are not a nation that will forget that Serbia as it is today would have never existed if Russia had not sacrificed at least one life for our each victim for freedom - in the wars against the Ottoman Empire, during World Wars I and II," he said.
He underscored that Russia is Serbia’s "only reliable historical ally."
The Kremlin press service said on March 7 that Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic had confirmed his visit to Moscow to take part in the celebrations of the 80th anniversary of victory in WWII and the participation of the Serbian military in the Victory Parade on May 9.
Sanctions against Vulin
A source told RASS earlier that the European Union 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. Brussels also demanded that President Aleksandar Vucic remove him from the country’s new government.
Earlier on Wednesday, Vulin told the European Parliament that Serbia will never go to war with Russia in exchange for EU membership. He said that Serbia for 20 years has been fulfilling "every wish and demand" of the EU but was told that 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 anything so low as imposing sanctions on Russia because of a conflict that could have been avoided if you had just respected the Minsk Agreements."
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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