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"The United States wants clarification on what Serbia signed with Russia in New York"

2022-09-26 17:56:15Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
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Christopher Hill

The American ambassador in Belgrade, Christopher Hill, said on Monday that the United States wants "clarification from Serbia about what it signed with Russia in New York", underlining that in this period "nobody should have signed anything with Russia".

On Friday, Serbian Foreign Minister Nikola Selakovic signed the agreement for mutual "consultations" on foreign policy issues with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, where most Western delegations avoided the Russian top diplomat. because of Russia's aggression in Ukraine.

The announcement provoked harsh criticism from a part of the opposition in Serbia, but also from some European Union politicians. Serbian Minister Selakovic tried on Sunday to play down the importance of the agreement, stressing that it is "technical" and not related to security issues.

Ambassador Hill said on Monday that in this period no one should sign anything with Russia and "few people do, except those miserable recruits who are mobilized to go to war".

Ambassador Hill said that during the proceedings of the UN General Assembly, the United States held "fruitful conversations" with the delegation of Serbia on global and other issues.

"We only heard about that document afterwards", said Ambassador Hill, emphasizing that "the United States wants clarification from Serbia".

"We want to hear what Serbia wants to do in the future and see what kind of relations it will develop with a country that brutally attacked its neighbor and even uses threats to use nuclear force. We want to understand what the cooperation between Serbia and Russia is based on," said Ambassador Hill.

The EU is concerned about the deepening of Serbia-Russia relations

The head of the European Union delegation in Belgrade, Emanuele Giaufret, said that this is not the time to strengthen ties with Russia and called on Serbia to harmonize its foreign policy with the bloc it aspires to join.

"We dare not forget that Russia has been carrying out aggression against Ukraine for seven months now and is strengthening the campaign by mobilizing 300,000 people, organizing illegal referendums on the secession of parts of Ukraine and is being threatened with weapons of mass destruction," he said. underlining that "this is not the time to strengthen ties with Russia and that signed agreement sends a completely opposite message despite what Serbia has said that it will not recognize the referendums organized by Russia".

Although it claims to support Ukraine's territorial integrity, Serbia has consistently refused to join Western sanctions against Moscow. The alignment of foreign policies with the European Union is one of the main prerequisites for joining the 27-nation bloc, but Serbia has repeatedly opposed calls to do so./VOA/


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