Photo: Miloš Milivojević/TanjugFor Energy Minister Zoran Mihajlović, Russia is not a true friend of Serbia, because if it was, Lavrov would not have invited himself to Serbia in this situation, and Moscow would have "asked" Belgrade to impose sanctions and thus make life easier for the Serbian brothers. However, for Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin, Lavrov is a real, proven friend of Serbia, and without Russia, Serbs have no life. So who loves what until Vučić decides who the Serbs have to love
Serbian Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin said on Thursday that "it is never good for foreigners to decide who are our guests and who are our friends."
Vulin stated that the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Sergei Lavrov, for whom European countries closed their skies and could not fly to Belgrade on Monday, in the past decades "proved in difficult places that he is a friend of Serbia", and that those who prevented his arrival, proved their "friendship" by "bombing Serbia, recognizing the so-called Kosovo, not implementing the Brussels Agreement, demanding that we leave Republika Srpska, ignoring Serbian victims, participating in attempts to overthrow the president of all Serbs, Aleksandar Vučić".
And further: "If we choose our friends according to daily political opportunities and if we allow foreigners to determine how and with whom we will cooperate, the question arises as to what is next." Abolishing elections and appointing an assembly and government and abandoning military neutrality?"
And then Vučić's: Serbia is neither Russian, nor American, nor European, but "the state of all its citizens and only them, and therefore it will never be good if a friend does not come to us, and if the force that threatens us is greater than the value of the freedom we we defend".
Russia to ask Serbia to impose sanctions on it
Vulin reacted in his official capacity to the too-western attitudes of the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Energy Zorana Mihajlovic, just as a progressive and a lawyer had previously turned to her Vladimir Đukanović Đuka i Prime Minister Ana Brnabić, because she dared to give an interview to the newspaper "Nova".
And Mihajlovic answered them: "When I see who attacks and criticizes me, it's funny." Regarding lawyer Djuka, she said on TV Happy that he abused his state office for the sake of private business, and that everything he says has no weight.
And Vulin found himself called out because she had declared for Juronuj: "The announcement of Lavrov's visit was complicated for Serbia and for President Aleksandar Vucic." We are trying to survive in the energy, financial and political sense at a time that is really difficult, and I think the least we need is for world issues to be solved behind our backs".
And further, tearing Vulin's ears: "We constantly hear how Serbia and Russia are the best friends", but "if the Russians are our friends, which they say they are, then they should not have planned that visit (Lavrov) at this moment" and bring Serbia into inconvenience, but to ask Serbia in a friendly manner to impose sanctions on Russia and ease its suffering.
"I think it is good that the Russian minister did not come to visit Serbia now, and we have to think about our way forward, and Serbia has clearly decided on the path to the European Union, as President Vučić also said," said Mihajlović.
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