Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic. Archive photoMOSCOW, 9 Apr. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic showed courage by admitting that his country voted to suspend Russia's membership in the UN Human Rights Council due to the threat of sanctions against itself, writes the Chinese newspaper Global Times. Earlier, the UN General Assembly voted to suspend participation Russia in the UNHRC because of the events in Ukraine. Serbia, among others, supported the resolution. The decision deprived the Russian side of the right to vote and the right to speak in the Council. In response, Moscow announced its withdrawal from the HRC.
"Vučić apparently had the courage to speak out about the threats and pressure that his country faced from the West, but how many more of the 93 countries that voted in favor did it under duress from the West, and how many did not dare to speak out?" — asked the author of the article.
The observer noted that after the start of the military operation in Ukraine, Belgrade is under strong pressure from Western countries, which are trying to force the Serbian side to join the condemnation and sanctions against Moscow. />The President of Serbia rejected all the insults that sound against Putin in the WestThe GT publicist believes that the issue of Serbia's accession to the European Union can be used as an instrument of pressure. «In extreme cases, the EU may even reduce financial support to Serbia,» the article says. likely to be the EU's departure from the principle of resolving the issue of Kosovo through diplomacy. February launched a special military operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine. Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» He stressed that it is planned to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the armed forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. By March 25, they completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal of the operation in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.