Russia says Lavrov will not be able to visit Serbia due to sanctions

Russia confirmed today that Bulgaria, North Macedonia and Montenegro do not allow the overflight of their airspace by the plane in which the Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, was going to travel to Serbia, so his visit to that country next week will not be possible be done today.

A senior official in the Russian Foreign Ministry told the Interfax agency, when asked if the visit scheduled for Monday and Tuesday is cancelled, that “Our diplomacy has not yet managed to teleport.”

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The source confirmed that Bulgaria, North Macedonia and Montenegro have not authorized the overflight of the Lavrov of your airspace.

The Prime Minister of SerbianAna Brnabic, pointed out today that the visit of the head of Russian diplomacy is “exceptionally complicated” due to international sanctions, which prohibit Russian planes from entering community airspace and other European countries that have joined this decision. .

The head of government added that the president of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, is personally taking care of the logistics to make the Russian minister’s trip to Belgrade possible.

“It is really incredible that the situation in Europe and the world is such that the president of a state has to deal with this type of thing, such as the logistics of a foreign minister’s trip,” said Brnabic.

Serbia, which aspires to join the European Union, has not joined the community bloc’s sanctions.

Source: Elcomercio

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