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Portray caption, Sergei Lavrov forged end ties with Serbia sooner than the Ukraine war
A talk over with to Serbia by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on 6-7 June has been cancelled because three of Serbia’s neighbours refuse to let his airplane exhaust their airspace.
EU member Bulgaria imposed the flight ban, along with North Macedonia and Montenegro – countries hoping, love Serbia, to affix the EU.
Russia’s international ministry confirmed the cancellation. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine ended in an EU airspace ban.
Serbia remains friendly with Russia.
Serbia has no longer joined the EU’s large-ranging sanctions against Russia. The EU and UK imposed a blanket flight ban on Russian planes – in conjunction with the non-public jets of oligarchs – days after the 24 February invasion.
Fancy many other European countries, Serbia relies closely on Russian gas. Mr Lavrov was as soon as to safe had talks in Belgrade with President Aleksandar Vucic.
The Kremlin strongly backs Serbia’s refusal to recognise Kosovo’s independence. Russia was as soon as angered by the Nato bombing marketing campaign against Serbia in 1999 all the draw via the Kosovo war.
Commenting on the Balkan cross to bar Mr Lavrov’s flight, a Russian international ministry supply stated “our diplomacy has but to master teleportation”.
In early March hundreds of professional-Russian Serbs marched via Belgrade, reflecting the countries’ traditionally end ties.
Media caption, Peek as hundreds of professional-Russia Serbs march via the centre of Belgrade